What is the difference between shareware and software?
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(computing) A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.
(computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). Compare hardware.
* 1958 , John W. Tukey, "The Teaching of Concrete Mathematics" in The American Mathematical Monthly , vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan. 1958), pp 1-9:
* 1995 , Paul Niquette, Softword: Provenance for the Word ‘Software’ :
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Shareware is a related term of software.
In context|computing|lang=en terms the difference between shareware and software
is that shareware is (computing) a type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience while software is (computing) encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as rom) compare hardware.As nouns the difference between shareware and software
is that shareware is (computing) a type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience while software is (computing) encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as rom) compare hardware.shareware
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(-)- The "software " comprising the carefully planned interpretive routines, compilers, and other aspects of automative programming are at least as important to the modern electronic calculator as its "hardware" of tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like.
- As originally conceived, the word "software " was merely an obvious way to distinguish a program from the computer itself. A program comprised sequences of changeable instructions each having the power to command the behavior of the permanently crafted machinery, the "hardware."
