Shareware isn't remotely the same as Open Source, though. It was a more-than-demo, more-than-full-version copy of a piece of commercial software, generally desi

Shareware isn't remotely the same as Open Source, though. It was a more-than-demo, more-than-full-version copy of a piece of commercial software, generally designed to be useful on its own, but not useful enough. It was a method of marketing the full version of the software. I've got a few CDs of later collections of the stuff. I remember buying clamshell-packaged games for $5 from Software, Etc (that turned out to be the first 1/3 of the game, for example). I remember seeing the magazines to order it from. I'm aware of shareware, and it's not related to what I was talking about.