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freeware
Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no monetary cost, which may have restrictions such as redistribution prohibited, and for which source code is not available.〔〔 Freeware, although itself free of charge, may be intended to benefit its owner, e.g. by encouraging sales of a more capable version. According to the Free Software Foundation (FSF), "freeware" is a loosely defined category and it has no clear accepted definition, although FSF asks that free software (libre; unrestricted and with source code available) should not be called freeware.〔 Examples of closed-source freeware include Adobe Reader and Skype.
==History==
The term ''freeware'' was coined in 1982〔"Shareware: An Alternative to the High Cost of Software", Damon Camille, ''1987''〕 by Andrew Fluegelman when he wanted to sell a communications program named PC-Talk that he had created but for which he did not wish to use commercial distribution channels.〔(Fisher.hu )〕 Fluegelman actually distributed PC-Talk via a process now referred to as shareware, no longer called freeware.〔(The Price of Quality Software ) by Tom Smith〕
The term ''freeware'' was used often in the 1980s and 1990s for programs released without source code.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Categories of free and nonfree software )〕
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