Postcardware
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Postcardware, also called just cardware, is a style of software distribution similar to shareware, distributed by the author on the condition that users send the author a postcard.
This is similar to beerware. A variation, Emailware, uses the same approach but requires the user to send the author an email.
Postcardware, like other "novelty" software distribution terms, is often not strictly enforced.
[edit] Software
The concept was first used by Aaron Giles, author of JPEGView.[1] Another well-known piece of postcardware is the roguelike game Ancient Domains of Mystery, whose author collects postcards from around the world. Orbitron is distributed as postcardware. Exifer is a popular application among digital photographers that is postcardware. Linux was postcardware for a long time as well.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Giles, Aaron. Aaron's Computing History. Retrieved on 2006-08-07.
- ^ Torvalds, Linus. Just for Fun. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-06-662072-4.
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