Shareware and Its Network Security

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Shareware and Its Network Security

The creation of the concept sharewares was one of the most revolutionary innovations of the 1980's. This new idea allowed the development of an online community of program users that do not need to rely on just retailers. A Shareware is a method of software distribution that distributes softwares for free to download and use. Shareware programs usually are programs one may buy from any computer store, but comes with the advantage of being able to try it out before actually buying it. However, this software is not the full package and comes with basic limitations. Sharewares may comprise of many kinds of softwares that involves: games, software, word processing, real estate, personal finance, etc.

The concept of shareware was originally started in 1982 coined as the term "freeware". It was developed by two programmers named Andrew Fluegleman and Jim Knopf who in fact invented this method from soft ware piracy. The irony was that they used to work for IBM and instead of going through the time to attempt to retail their programs; they distributed their programs in a network that allowed the programs to be copied and further distributed