Postcardware

2 definitions found

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

  postcardware n. A kind of {shareware} that borders on {freeware}, in
     that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of
     their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem,
     serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for
     nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate `sales'
     in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a


     gift.)
  
  

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

  postcardware
       
          {Shareware} that borders on {freeware}, in that the author
          requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their
          home town or something.  (This practice, silly as it might
          seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting
          something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related
          to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep
          the transaction from being a gift.)
       
          [{Jargon File}]