Talk:Careware

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wikitionary material? This is nothing but a definition -User:Borisblue

I agree. This seems to be here more for completeness than true encyclopedic content. I don't see this blooming into a true encyclopedia entry, either: This is a rather rare way to distribute software (even Vim, the current main example, is best described as being Free Software, a different category entirely) and no notable (beyond the hacker community) packages are distributed this way.

Secondly, why is this seperate from Donateware? There doesn't seem to me to be a real difference between them.

Finally, Paul Lutus has an entirely different definition of this term. He might be the only one, but his page (http://www.arachnoid.com/careware/) comes up first in a Google search on the term. Either we mention him even though probably few people have heard of him or care about his definition, or we leave him out and leave out the definition people are most likely to find outside of Wikipedia. To my view, that's lose-lose.

--chbarts 10:01, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

There is an alternate entry under CareWare. It mentions KiXtart as a CareWare app, which to me is also substantial app. I don't know how to merge articles making sure that internal links are maintained.

--User:stierle