freeware

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The game arrived in 2013 as a freeware project authored by a Swedish IT professional named Anton Wallén, right as Google was working to fill in the gaps to worldwide camera coverage.

From The Verge • Dec. 21, 2021

Try reading reviews or recommendations from sites like mine before you download any freeware at all.

From Fox News • Sep. 12, 2021

Ordinary computer users, many of them with no prior hacking experience, volunteered to become “script kiddies,” wielding premade freeware code scripts to contribute to the attack.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2017

They totally left an opening for Kaspersky and some freeware competitors in the SMB space,” says Firstbrook.

From Forbes • Apr. 13, 2011

See also careware, charityware, crippleware, freeware, FRS, guiltware, postcardware, and -ware; compare payware.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.