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Payware: /pay'weir/ N. Commercial Software. Oppose {shareware} Or {freeware}.
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:payware: /pay'weir/ n. Commercial software. Oppose {shareware}
or {freeware}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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payware /pay'weir/ n. Commercial software. Oppose shareware or freeware.
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....
ware: [from `software'] suff. Commonly used to form jargon terms for classes of software.
For examples, see {careware}, {crippleware}, {crudware}, {freeware}, {fritterware}, {guiltware}, {liveware}, {meatware}, {payware}, {psychedelicware}, {shareware}, {shelfware}, {vaporware}, {wetware}....
charityware: /cha'rit-ee-weir`/ n. Syn. {careware}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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....
hovelware: /shuh'v*l-weir`/ n. Extra software dumped onto a CD-ROM or tape to fill up the remaining space on the medium after the software distribution it's intended to carry
but not integrated with the distribution. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
hareware /sheir'weir/ n. A kind of freeware (sense 1) for which the author requests some payme
usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself....
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...
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