Guiltware

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  guiltware /gilt'weir/ n. 1. A piece of {freeware} decorated with a
     message telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and
     intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not immediately
     send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money. 2. A piece of {shareware}
     that works.
  


  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  guiltware
       
          /gilt'weir/ 1. A piece of {freeware} decorated with a message
          telling one how long and hard the author worked on it and
          intimating that one is a no-good freeloader if one does not
          immediately send the poor suffering martyr gobs of money.
       
          2. {Shareware} that works.
       
          [{Jargon File}]