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Miscellaneous => Intellectual Property & Law => Topic started by: worker201 on 15 August 2008, 00:37

Title: *ware Semantics
Post by: worker201 on 15 August 2008, 00:37

The following passage appears in one of my Geographic Information Systems textbooks:

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Software can be distributed to the market in several different ways.  The dominant form of distribution is the sale of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software products on hard copy media (CD/DVD).  Alternative distribution models that are becoming increasingly prevalent include shareware (usually intended for sale after a trial period), liteware (shareware with some capabilities disabled), freeware (free software but with copyright restrictions), public domain software (free with no restrictions), and open source software (where the source code is provided and users agree not to limit the distribution of improvements).

I figure this could be a good starting point to developing a common glossary of terms to say what we really mean with little or no ambiguity.

Title: Re: *ware Semantics
Post by: davidnix71 on 20 August 2008, 23:13

That's pretty straightforward.


Of course, the other 'distribution' model is torrents of warez with crack serialz, but I don't think that's what they had in mind.