shareware

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The company was built on a shareware model, encouraging users to download antiviral software for free and pay later.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2021

Our experience was more consuming shareware, you know, games where it was “try before you buy.”

From The Verge • Mar. 16, 2021

This strategy of giving the software away for free, like with shareware back in the day, let the Unreal Engine spread far and fast.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2020

Ultra Business Tycoon III, another game by Porpentine, begins as a parody of an “edutainment” game from the 1990s — complete with its own antiquated shareware code.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2014

In addition to collaborating on the company’s games, he masterminded all of their early marketing campaigns and shareware distribution schemes, with astounding results.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline