Freeware Versus Shareware – What’s The Difference?
Freeware Versus Shareware – What’s The Difference? We line them up side by side The term freeware was first used nearly four decades ago when Andrew Fluegelman, a programmer, created the PC-Talk program for the IBM PC, although it wasn’t freely distributed initially. A few months later, Bob Wallace, a Microsoft software developer, developed the PC-Write word processor and called it shareware because it wasn’t distributed freely. Ideally, freeware – or free software – is fully available for free, without any feature or time limits....