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freeware
(encz) | freeware,bezplatný software Zdeněk Brož |
freeware
(wn) | freeware
n 1: software that is provided without charge |
freeware
(foldoc) | freeware
Software, often written by enthusiasts and
distributed at no charge by users' groups, or via the
web, electronic mail, bulletin boards,
Usenet, or other electronic media.
At one time, "freeware" was a trademark of {Andrew
Fluegelman}. It wasn't enforced after his death.
"Freeware" should not be confused with "free software"
(roughly, software with unrestricted redistribution) or
"shareware" (software distributed without charge for which
users can pay voluntarily).
Jim Knopf's story (http://freewarehof.org/sstory.html).
[Jargon File]
(2003-07-26)
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freeware
(jargon) | freeware
n.
[common] Freely-redistributable software, often written by enthusiasts and
distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin
boards, Usenet, or other electronic media. As the culture of the Internet
has displaced the older BBS world, this term has lost ground to both {open
source} and free software; it has increasingly tended to be restricted to
software distributed in binary rather than source-code form. At one time,
freeware was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the author of the well-known
MS-DOS comm program PC-TALK III. It wasn't enforced after his mysterious
disappearance and presumed death in 1984. See shareware, FRS.
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