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• postcardware: n. {Shareware} that borders on {freeware}, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something.
  (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate `sales' in which $...
• hareware /sheir'weir/ n. A kind of freeware (sense 1) for which the author requests some payme
  usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself....
• hareware: /sheir'weir/ n. {Freeware} (sense 1) for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself.
  Such payment may or may not buy additional support or functionality....
• annoyware n. A type of shareware that frequently disrupts normal program operation to display requests for payment to the author in return for the ability to disable the request messages.
  (Also called `nagware') The requests generally require user action to acknowledge the message before normal operation is resumed and are often tied to the most frequently used features of the software....
• lamer n. [prob. originated in skateboarder slang] 1.
  Synonym for luser, not used much by hackers but common among warez d00dz, crackers, and phreakers....
• user n. 1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end.
  Someone who pays to use a computer. See real user....
• guiltware /gilt'weir/ n. 1. A piece of freeware decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money.
  2. A piece of shareware that works....
• guiltware: /gilt'weir/ n. 1. A piece of {freeware} decorated with a message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money.
  2. {Shareware} that works. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• freeware n. [common] Free software, often written by enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups, or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, Usenet, or other electronic media.
  At one time, `freeware' was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the author of the well-known MS-DOS comm program PC-TALK III....