{"id":232,"date":"2003-02-21T18:37:34","date_gmt":"2003-02-21T23:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=232"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"is_shareware_dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/21\/is_shareware_dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Shareware Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unsanity.org\/archives\/000116.php\">Slava Karpenko<\/a><\/li>\n\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nslog.com\/archives\/2003\/02\/21\/shareware_dead_a_bit_late_slava.php\">Erik Barzeski<\/a><\/li>\n\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=300#300\">Rainer Brockerhoff<\/a><\/li>\n\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/entry.php?1540\">Daniel Sandler<\/a><\/li>\n\n\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nslog.com\/archives\/000272.php\">Steven Frank<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nAt present, I call my software shareware. By that I mean that it&rsquo;s free to try and isn&rsquo;t crippled, although it will nag you. Users get support directly from me, and I&rsquo;m responsive to their suggestions. I encourage people to share the software (but not their serial numbers) with their friends, and it&rsquo;s available on various compilation CDs and at Info-Mac. But I guess I agree that the term &ldquo;shareware&rdquo; has become meaningless because everyone has a different idea of what it means. We stopped saying in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/reviews\">ATPM reviews<\/a> whether a piece of software claimed to be shareware. It wasn&rsquo;t a distinction worth making. After all, BBEdit now has a shareware-style trial, and it&rsquo;s backed by a responsive company, but it isn&rsquo;t shareware, is it? Instead, we list the price and briefly state whether you can try before buying and how the trial is limited (if at all). I should probably start doing this for my software. The question that remains is what to select in VersionTracker&rsquo;s License popup.\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slava Karpenko Erik Barzeski Rainer Brockerhoff Daniel Sandler Steven Frank At present, I call my software shareware. By that I mean that it&rsquo;s free to try and isn&rsquo;t crippled, although it will nag you. Users get support directly from me, and I&rsquo;m responsive to their suggestions. I encourage people to share the software (but not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}