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The
essence of shareware is to provide you with software that
you get to "try before you buy", while rewarding
the efforts of the developers. When you think about it, the
opportunity to try before you buy is the ultimate guarantee
of a product's quality and usefulness to you. In fact, shareware
can be just as professionally developed as software that comes
in a fancy box (with a lot of hype and yet no way to determine
issues such as the "look and feel", etc.), but the
price of shareware can be set lower because it does not have
to cover expensive marketing costs. Still, software businesses
that market their products as shareware need to get paid for
their efforts just as any other business. When you support
the shareware concept, it ensures that the concept will continue
to work and you will continue to get to "try before you
buy".
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