Indieware

Monday 24 February 2003This is close to 22 years old. Be careful.

Slava Karpenko (Unsanity.org) wrote that shareware is dead (because the distinction between shareware and traditional software is so blurred).

A number of other people commented. I thought a bit about the thing that made shareware different from “regular” software, and these people are all right: the “share” aspect of it has completely changed.

I was trying to put my finger on what made it different now, when I found that Buzz Andersen hit the nail on the head, coining the term “indieware” (like independent record labels, or independent movie makers).

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