Also known as trialware, demoware
Shareware is proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the owner. Shareware is often offered as a download from a website. Shareware differs from freeware, which is fully-featured software distributed at no cost to the user but without source code being made available; and free and open-source software, in which the source code is freely available for anyone to inspect and alter.
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共享軟體（shareware）是不開放原始程式碼的電腦軟件。 商業用途（commercial use）的共享軟體采用先試后買（try before you buy）的模式，為軟體使用者提供有限期的（或者部分功能受限的）免費試用，用以評測是否符合自己的使用需求，繼而決定是否購買授權而繼續使用該軟體。 而非商業用途（non-commercial use）的共享軟體，多半是免付費軟體（freeware），業餘程式設計愛好者「展示」其設計才華，或者提供其他軟體玩家免費的服務。 「共享軟體」一詞首見於1980年代，由美國程式設計師Bob Wallace所創的，1983年他離開了微軟並自立門戶，開創了，跟著他寫了一個文書處理軟體，名為「」，並稱這是一個「Shareware」，「PC-Write」成為首個被稱呼為「共享軟體」的程式。
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).
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