Shareware as a software distribution method being developed extensively. Find out how shareware become so popular. How did shareware become so popular? What started in the early 80's as an initiative to share free software amongst users of the newly launched IBM PCs, turned into a billion dollar industry. The beginning of shareware Jim Button, the creator of PC-File - a database program, and Andrew Fluegleman, the author of PC-Talk - a communication program, are considered to be the "fathers" of the shareware concept. Though they didn't know each other, when they found out that they used the same method of software distribution, they decided to promote each other's software. Their intention was at first to share free software with other us View the rest of this article
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