This shying away from the "shareware" label is amusing. Of course it's shareware and the majority of Mac developers are shareware developers. We might call it something else at cocktail parties, but that's just spin and marketing.
"Shareware" seems to imply more freedom to redistribute than is usually intended. For instance, there are demo versions of InDesign and Dreamweaver, but I don't hear anybody calling them shareware, because there's no way Adobe would be OK with me sharing my copy of InDesign with somebody else.
by Chuck — Jan 16
"Shareware" seems to imply more freedom to redistribute than is usually intended. For instance, there are demo versions of InDesign and Dreamweaver, but I don't hear anybody calling them shareware, because there's no way Adobe would be OK with me sharing my copy of InDesign with somebody else.