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<blockquote data-quote="Formido" data-source="post: 183605" data-attributes="member: 20454"><p>I would mostly agree, although I tend to simplify it into four categories:</p><p>1. Freeware - software that is 100% free...no strings, gimmicks, or cons allowed.</p><p>2. Shareware - software that is free, but the developer asks for donation...may or may not include nagware.</p><p>3. Payware - not free, and comes at a clearly marked price...includes trialware.</p><p>4. Rentware - not free, in that you have to make regular payments, usually once a year.</p><p>In my opinion (take it or leave it), so-called freeware that comes with adware is really fraudware or scamware. Download sites that supply such foistware are enablers of this con job, and developers that allow their products to be packaged with such adware are con men that that do not have the backbone to make their offerings payware.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Formido, post: 183605, member: 20454"] I would mostly agree, although I tend to simplify it into four categories: 1. Freeware - software that is 100% free...no strings, gimmicks, or cons allowed. 2. Shareware - software that is free, but the developer asks for donation...may or may not include nagware. 3. Payware - not free, and comes at a clearly marked price...includes trialware. 4. Rentware - not free, in that you have to make regular payments, usually once a year. In my opinion (take it or leave it), so-called freeware that comes with adware is really fraudware or scamware. Download sites that supply such foistware are enablers of this con job, and developers that allow their products to be packaged with such adware are con men that that do not have the backbone to make their offerings payware. [/QUOTE]
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