{"id":2362,"date":"2003-02-24T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2003-02-24T13:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=306"},"modified":"2010-05-09T18:03:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:03:53","slug":"re-the-end-of-shareware-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/24\/re-the-end-of-shareware-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: The end of shareware?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buzz Andersen, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifihifi.com\/podworks\/\">PodWorks<\/a>, weighs in on the shareware debate with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifihifi.com\/index.cgi\/software\/DeathOfShareware.html\">a great suggestion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have personally thought about the problems with the &#8220;shareware&#8221; designation for awhile now, and I&#8217;ve come to one conclusion: that the term I prefer is <em>independent software<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Shareware may be dead, but who cares: indieware is alive and kicking!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s an excellent idea. So, &#8220;indieware&#8221; it is. This can also be considered an abbreviation of &#8220;individual software&#8221;, which is very fitting. Now, every former shareware author should write in to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versiontracker.com\/\">VersionTracker<\/a> (info@versiontracker.com) and similar websites to have them change their labeling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzz Andersen, the author of PodWorks, weighs in on the shareware debate with a great suggestion: I have personally thought about the problems with the &#8220;shareware&#8221; designation for awhile now, and I&#8217;ve come to one conclusion: that the term I prefer is independent software. &#8230;Shareware may be dead, but who cares: indieware is alive and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-C6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}