[ 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…”