Where's the Shareware? | Linux Today

Where’s the Shareware?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 11, 2008

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“Today is the first day of MacHeist 2, an event where you can
get 10 shareware OS X applications for $49USD (all the apps
regularly priced at $343.75USD). That’s a pretty spanking good
deal. This year’s heist looks pretty good… last year’s was
better, but this year isn’t bad by any stretch of the
imagination.

“So that got me thinking about shareware. There are essentially
three schools of software: freeware, shareware, and commercial. For
the mac user, there’s plenty of all three, same for the windows
user. It seems like, by and large, the Linux crowd is stuck with
two: freeware (ala open source) and commercial…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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