freeware
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of freeware
First recorded in 1980–85
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The game arrived in 2013 as a freeware project authored by a Swedish IT professional named Anton Wallén, right as Google was working to fill in the gaps to worldwide camera coverage.
From The Verge • Dec. 21, 2021
The majority of unsolicited freeware will clog your computer with junk files, give you malware or provide entryways for hackers.
From Fox News • Sep. 12, 2021
Ordinary computer users, many of them with no prior hacking experience, volunteered to become “script kiddies,” wielding premade freeware code scripts to contribute to the attack.
From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2017
They totally left an opening for Kaspersky and some freeware competitors in the SMB space,” says Firstbrook.
From Forbes • Apr. 13, 2011
Originally freeware; a commercial version was modestly popular as `UniPress EMACS' during the 1980s.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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