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Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. [1] Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the software developer. [2] Shareware is often offered as a download from a website.
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Like shareware, freeware is software available for download and distribution without any initial payment. Freeware never has an associated fee. Things like minor program updates and small games are commonly distributed as freeware. Though freeware is cost-free, it is copyrighted, so other people can not market the software as their own. [3]
Pages in category "Shareware games" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abuse (video game)
Nelson Ford (born 1946) was one of the founders of shareware software distribution, of HAL-PC (the Houston Area League of PC Users, a PC user group which grew to over 10,000 members), of the Association of Shareware Professionals, founder of the Public (software) Library, the largest commercial library of public domain and shareware software, and of the first major order processing service for ...
July 1994 – The Fraunhofer Society released the l3enc mp3 encoding software as shareware, the first of its kind. [12] September 1995 – The Fraunhofer Society released WinPlay3, the first software mp3 player for Windows. June 1996 – Mp3 warez group Rabid Neurosis founded.
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gDoc Fusion: Proprietary/shareware to view PDF, XPS, Microsoft Word document, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or image files, included in the evaluation version of the product. Shareware version places a watermark on documents after 30-day eval. Google Chrome: Includes a PDF viewer.