shareware

The company was built on a shareware model, encouraging users to download antiviral software for free and pay later.

Our experience was more consuming shareware, you know, games where it was “try before you buy.”

It feels to me like all of these clunky, free, webtoon paper doll sites, pink online worlds, and inscrutable animal-raising shareware games were part of an early computing vocabulary for young women, in particular.

The DOS Games Archives promises clean shareware, freeware and public-domain software.

In addition to collaborating on the company’s games, he masterminded all of their early marketing campaigns and shareware distribution schemes, with astounding results.