We basically paid for the disk the software was distributed on plus a very small fee to cover the labor involved with copying the program onto the disk. That’s why many folks pay out the nose once a year or so for the privilege of installing the “new and improved” versions of their favorite programs.Ģ – We could buy a floppy disk that contained a “shareware” version of a program to see if we liked it.
The methods used to distribute software programs to the masses have changed quite a bit over the years.īack in the early days of personal computing, software was usually distributed in one of three ways:ġ – We could buy a program outright and use it for as long as we wanted to without having to make any further payments.Įventually the software companies figured out that most of us would be willing to shell out our hard-earned dollars on a regular basis to buy “upgraded” versions of our software.
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