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for viruses any of the listed programs. We do not guarantee, or accept
responsibility for, the accuracy of program descriptions or the functionality
of any program. Programs are downloaded, installed and used at the users
own risk. We do not offer any technical support for any software listed
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where these details are available. All questions should be directed to
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We provide an index to FREE
programs and databases commonly found on public access Bulletin Boards
around the world and the Internet. The list includes Freeware,Public Domain
software. These are programs and databases for which no fee is required
for use by you as an individual. Freeware, and Public Domain are terms
often mis-used. The correct definitions are listed on this page. Most of
the programs in this will be found on the internet. We encourage you to
download them. We make available huge list of Freeware so
you can download them. We
add new entries whenever we find them.
Among the most prominent people in the computer
world, past and present, are those programmers who allow us to use their
programs at no cost. Writing software and distributing it via Bulletin
Boards with no request for payment, they enable everyone to share the fruit
of their knowledge, the benefit of their discoveries, and the spirit of
generosity that defines a person's character. GOLDEN'S
WEBWATCHERS founded in 1998, honors
these people and to encourage other programmers to follow in their footsteps.
The list of files is never complete. It will grow every week as we attempt
to catch up with the hundreds of fine people who represent the hobby side
of the PC world, and the generous side of human nature. Some of the best
programmers in the profession, software writers sought after and employed
by the most advanced governments and industries in the world. The Freeware
they write commonly reflects the highest level of concept and execution.These
pages published are devoted to Freeware. All these programs work. All are
free. Nearly all are commonly available on public access Bulletin Boards.
We can recommend them as programs that do the job for which they are intended.
These files are indexed to make
these freeware programs easier to find, but locating the current version
on the internet can require a search.
FREEWARE DEFINED
The Freeware listed here at GOLDEN'S
WEBWATCHERS, refers to programs or
databases that an individual may use without payment of money to the author.
Commonly the author will copyright his work as a way of legally insisting
no one change it prior to getting his approval. Commonly he will issue
a License defining the terms under which his program may be used. With
Freeware there is no charge for the license.
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Other Freeware is in the Public Domain, which
means the author donated his work to the public and retains no ownership
rights. No fee can be required for the use of PD programs, though a humorous
request for author support might drift into the Docs.
WHAT'S NOT FREE?
SHAREWARE AND DEMOS!
Shareware is not Free. Shareware is fee ware,
commercial software sold on the "try before you buy" plan. It's like testing
a product for a few weeks to see if you like it. If you keep it you're
expected to pay for it.
Shareware got its name because at the beginning
the programs were free and if you registered, the author would advise you
of updates to the software. The cost of that led to registration fees,
and they were followed by fees imposed if you continued to use the program
after trying it. Most Shareware released today requires a fee for use,
though there are many authors loyal to the original concept.
Using Shareware marketing, many superb programs
are made available at far lower cost than software marketed in stores or
by mail order.
SHAREWARE DOWNSIDE
Shareware always asks for a fee for continued
use of the program and the author says so, usually in a professional way.
A few authors aren't professional and show that when discussing payment.
They lose sight of the users who pay and fixate on those who don't. In
their Docs they insult you and damage the Shareware industry.
Shareware works on an honor system in a world
where there is more Shareware than honor. Not every author can handle that,
and some respond by displaying their own personal failings.
They will cripple the Shareware. You get only
a limited version of the program until you buy it. They put delays and
more than one payment request in the program which only go away when you
purchase a registration number. Some simply quits working if you don't
buy it soon enough.
Some Shareware gives you bonus features when
you register which some people resent. They extend the term crippled to
include Shareware that doesn't have all the author's bells and whistles.
That's an extremist position. We think true bonuses coming with registration,
such as adding extra functions to working software as QWKMail creator Mark
Herring of SparkWare did, are a legitimate business gimmick. Shareware
IS business. Getting people to pay is no easy task.
Some Shareware authors have no head for business.
We found one who offered a $100 reward for the name of anyone using his
$10 program who didn't register it. We wonder how many people called to
turn themselves in and claim the reward.
Perhaps the most damaging thing
in Shareware are the few authors who are unreliable or dishonest. We've
seen examples of each. Send them your registration money and they keep
it and never respond, or respond months later.
Two well-known Shareware writers are legendary
for not following through on registrations. Buyers throw good money after
bad phoning their "support Boards" asking for a registration key and never
hear a thing.
Non-payers can also use these programs and
never register, for which the authors have themselves to blame.
$0 COST SHAREWARE
There is one form of Shareware that is free
for individual use. Authors usually call it $0 Shareware. It meets our
definition of Freeware for individuals and is included in our collection.
GOLDEN'S
WEBWATCHERS excepts ALL forms of
Shareware because it makes good sense for software users and for software
authors seeking payment. Here's why.
DEMOS
Something free but not Shareware or Freeware
is software demos sent to Bulletin Boards. A demo is a program that will
stop working or cause
problems on a PC if used beyond a trial period.
They are the product of commercial software authors asking the Shareware
community to market their products.
Demos guarantee a user will pay for the program
if he continues to want it, which some authors find attractive. Every demo
represents a product that might have been Shareware, but isn't. Demos are
a threat to the Shareware concept and for that reason, most sites refuse
to carry them. Demos are thoroughly commercial with no sharing involved.
They can be a source of income to sites who recognize they are entitled
to be paid to carry them.
ECONOMICS
Retail marketing means higher price than Shareware
for the same functionality. The higher price comes from the mark-up to
cover distribution, marketing, and a profit at each step of the way. Buyers
pay for those but they add not one line of code to what the author wrote.
Production, flashy packaging so it can be seen
on the shelves, advertising so we will hear of it, and marketing to get
it included in the store inventory - those are major chunks of the sales
price even if the software is sold at deep discount. Everyone who adds
something also adds to the cost of what the author produced. The end buyer
pays for it all.
No economies of scale or mass production can
alter that, though they and competition may keep the price from bulging.
No matter how deep the discount, the cost to sell through retail channels
means retail can never approach the value of Shareware.
With Shareware the only one paid is the author.
There is no advertising, packaging, or marketing. Distribution is donated
free by sysops, by callers passing uploads around the Boards, and by Shareware
disk distributors with their catalogs. The savings translates to rock-bottom
price for software that can be as good or better than what's found in stores.
Nearly every retail store and mail order program
has Shareware and Freeware equivalents. Not uncommonly the equivalents
are better but that's something you have to prove for yourself, as others
did. For example, software from a BBS can be updated and distributed on
short notice - overnight - and at no cost, so Shareware authors are usually
the first to be in step with advances in new hardware, first to take advantage
of new DOS or Windows capabilities when operating systems are updated.
Both Shareware and Freeware
are available on Bulletin Boards.
PIRACY
Programs sold through retail stores are
never available on Bulletin Boards.
GOLDEN'S WEBWATCHERS
want no programs in its download directories that aren't supposed to be
here, and screens programs carefully. Should something slip through that
shouldn't be here, we would like our visitors to tell us. All visitors
including first-timers can see and access all our download links pages,
and directories.
FREEWARE
Freeware authors often show a sense of humor.
They also frequently provide the source code so other programmers can customize
the program and build on it.
VIRUSES & TROJANS
Many viruses and trojans can't be spread by
a BBS. For example the Michelangelo virus so prominent in the press is
only spread by booting an infected diskette, and BBSs don't use diskettes.
As insiders know, Michelangelo was spread through brand new shrink-wrapped
retail software.
Some viruses are introduced when disks go through
mass duplication during manufacture. Open the shrink-wrap, run the program,
infect the harddrive. Brand new pre-formatted disks can be infected that
way, since even a "blank" formatted floppy contains code any programmer
can learn all about. Disks sent out by businesses such as advertising agencies
should always be checked before running them. The company has no intent
to harm. They don't know the disk is infected. They don't check.
Because Bulletin Boards are nearly the ONLY
industry to check everything for viruses and trojans they have become the
single safest source for software. We protect callers from getting damaging
downloads from us, but only the caller can guard himself against infected
diskettes.
We recommend running a virus check on every
floppy placed in a drive no matter where it came from. It was a professional
consultant who spread a virus in our town a few years ago, doing great
harm to his clients who turned on their computers March 6 when Michelangelo
activates and promptly lost everything on their harddrives.
There are more than 5,000 recognized virus
strains. Fighting them and the sociopaths who write and distribute them
has created an international industry of virus fighters. The best anti-virus
programs are equipped with retrovirus code to combat viruses designed to
disable anti-virus programs. Some virus checkers have a heuristic mode
which allows searching for code strings which act like virus code. These
programs can find a new virus making an appearance for the first time.
It's all a massive waste of resources, as only
illness and war can waste resources. Fortunately, there are excellent Freeware
anti-virus programs.
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