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in Al Stevens' C Programming Column in about 1991. Stevens was developing a user interface library and publishing the source code in monthly installments. To distribute code to readers, Stevens suggested they send him an addressed stamped mailer with a blank diskette. He copied the code onto the
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careware, on the other hand, includes a levy for charity on top of the distribution charge. Careware can also involve a barter of some kind, or even a pledge to be kind to strangers.
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Paul Lutus's careware idea involves no monetary exchange - instead it involves a request for the user to "stop complaining for a while and make the world a better place."
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The term "charityware" was credited to Canadian developer Roedy Green in a 1988 issue of 2600 Magazine. One of the first known uses of the term "careware" appeared in
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diskette and returned it. He also suggested that to express their appreciation they include a dollar, which he would donate to the local
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software
charity
distributed free
Commercial
Dr. Dobb's Journal
food bank
Brevard County, Florida
vim
free software
Bram Moolenaar
ICCF Holland
AIDS
Uganda
Charityware license
Richard Stallman
GPL
MJ's CD Archiver
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Mac OS X
China
Project Hope
donationware
FireFTP
KiXtart
Peazip
Vim (text editor)
Windows Live Messenger
"i'm" initiative
Product Red

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