postcardware n.
A kind of 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 $1
changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
A kind of 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 $1
changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
Related:
- postcardware: n. {Shareware} that borders on {freeware},
in that the author requests only that satisfied... - shareware /sheir'weir/ n.
A kind of freeware (sense
1) for which the author requests some payment,
usually in the accompanying documentation files... - shareware: /sheir'weir/ n. {Freeware} (sense 1) for which the
author requests some payment,
usually in the accompanying documentation files... - 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... - lamer n.
[prob. originated in skateboarder slang]
1.
Synonym for luser, not used much by hackers but common... - user n.
1. Someone doing `real work' with the computer,
using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who... - 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... - freeware n.
[common] Free software, often written by
enthusiasts and distributed by users' groups,
or via electronic mail, local bulletin boards, Usenet...
From the same category:
- Eric Conspiracy n.
A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers
named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous
talk.bizarre posting ca.
1987; this was doubtless influenced ... - zero-content adj.
Syn.
content-free... - Python /pi:'thon/
In the words of its author, "the other
scripting language" (other than Perl,
that is). Python's design is notably clean, elegant... - UCE n.
[abbrev., Unsolicited Commercial Email] A
widespread,
more formal term for email spam. Compare UBE, which... - X /X/ n.
1. Used in various speech and writing
contexts (also in lowercase) in roughly its algebraic sense of
`unknown within a set defined by context' (compare N).
Thus, the...
