: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 $1 changes hands just to keep the
transaction from being a gift.)
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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.)
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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A kind of shareware that borders on
freeware,
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author requests some payment,
usually in the accompanying documentation files... - shareware /sheir'weir/ n.
A kind of freeware (sense
1) for which the author requests some payment,
usually in the accompanying documentation files... - guiltware: /gilt'weir/ n. 1. A piece of {freeware} decorated
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immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money.
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A type of shareware that frequently
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to the author in return for the ability to disable the request
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