shareware

Also see the new definition of shareware: an app going viral because so many people are sharing it.

So you use it without paying if you are a lame person, much like in the shareware days.

Sure, but does it describe itself as shareware?

The new security popups are nothing compared to the abuse shareware has heaped on users.

As in the spirit of shareware, you let people watch some of the episodes for free, then charge for the rest.

The original benefit of shareware was that you could redistribute the installer to your friends.

This is no longer a compelling benefit, and 'shareware' has serious negative implications nowadays.

The entire idea with shareware was that you could share the software with others.

This differs greatly from sourceforge, which now looks like a shareware site, and google code which can be difficult to navigate at times.

Without bending that that etiquette too much, you could call Internet Explorer shareware.

I remember those $5 shareware disks you used to be able to get at the markets.

I depends what you mean by shareware too.

In many ways, shareware has become the "default" method for distributing commercial software, and it's non-shareware software that's kind of weird.

Lot's of people make money from shareware, if you mean "software with a free trial or evaluation period".

It was called the "30-till-30" model by our sales guys who didn't realize it was just shareware.

Some people believed that the term "shareware" should only be applied to non-expiring, freely redistributable programs.

You could argue that something like Sublime Text is Shareware, even though they don't use the term.

Shareware conflated two different concepts that are now separated: the distribution model, and the pricing model.

Shareware often had all software features unlocked immediately, but encouraged people to pay if they liked it and continued using it.