{"id":10,"date":"2004-07-30T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/what-is-shareware\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:10:10","slug":"what-is-shareware","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/what-is-shareware\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Shareware?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shareware is a marketing method, not a type of software or even strictly just a distribution method.<\/p>\r\n  <p>When software is marketed through normal retail channels, you are forced to pay for the product before you've even seen it. The shareware marketing method lets you try a program before you buy it. Since you've tried the program, you know whether it will meet your needs before you pay for it. <\/p>\r\n  <p>A shareware program is just like a program you find in major stores, catalogs, and other places where software is purchased, except you get to use it, on your own computer, before paying for it. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shareware is a marketing method, not a type of software or even strictly just a distribution method. When software is marketed through normal retail channels, you are forced to pay for the product before you&#8217;ve even seen it. The shareware marketing method lets you try a program before you buy it. Since you&#8217;ve tried the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1771],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2118],"class_list":["post-10","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-faq-bing-archive","lsvr_kba_tag-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/10\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}