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Dreamware vs Abandonware - What's the difference?

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Abandonware is a related term of dreamware.



As nouns the difference between dreamware and abandonware

is that dreamware is things dreamed of; fictions or fantasies while abandonware is : A software product, especially a video game, whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it.

dreamware

English

Noun

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  • (rare) Things dreamed of; fictions or fantasies.
  • * 1901 , Paulist Fathers, Catholic World
  • No use talking, I'm an unpractical, useless dealer in dreamware ; a metaphysician who don't know how to fry an egg...
  • * 1994 , William Corbett, Philip Guston's late work
  • The painting could serve as a sign over a shop selling dreamware . Legend erases the line between conscious and unconscious.
  • * 2008 , Skip Moen, Spiritual Restoration
  • So much of our contemporary theological dreamware is about escape. We long for heaven. We fix our eyes on the other world. We want out!
  • (computing, rare) Speculative software products that may never reach fruition; vapourware.
  • * 1989 , Visual Resources Association, Bulletin
  • ...the author is surprised to find so few imaging projects actually using CD-ROM. He attributes this to the "wait and see" attitude of potential users who are holding out for new "dreamware" products which do not exist yet.
  • * 1989 , Information Access Company, Datamation
  • Independently pursuing his interest in metasoftware, Vinci has defined several basic modules and created some actual models of his dreamware .
  • * 1999 , Jessica Keyes, Internet Management
  • You could create problems for your company if you downplay current products and hype the dreamware that may never become reality.

    abandonware

    Noun

    (-)
  • : A software product, especially a video game, whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it.
  • See also

    * free software * public domain * announcementware * vaporware