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• guiltware: /gilt'weir/ n. 1. A piece of {freeware} decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money.
  2. {Shareware} that works. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• hareware: /sheir'weir/ n. {Freeware} (sense 1) for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself.
  Such payment may or may not buy additional support or functionality....
• wizard: n. 1. A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who {grok}s it)
  esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency....
• anity check n. [very common] 1. The act of checking a piece of code (or anything else, e.
  g., a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes....
• anity check: n. 1. The act of checking a piece of code (or anything else, e.
  g., a USENET posting) for completely stupid mistakes....
• freeware n. [common] Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, Usenet, or other electronic media.
  At one time, `freeware' was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the author of the well-known MS-DOS comm program PC-TALK III....
• freeware: n. Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, {USENET}, or other electronic media.
  At one time, `freeware' was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the author of the well-known MS-DOS comm program PC-TALK III....
• hamster n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well
  a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel....
• hamster: n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well
  a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster {happily} spinning its exercise wheel....