If you decide to keep it, you're expected to pay the fee. The creators don't have the big ad budgets of the Microsofts, so you have to look a little harder for their stuff. Most of it is distributed on the Internet and online. What I like most about shareware is the surprise. The Microsoft-Netscape war over the browser market has led to the software equivalent of the 1960s gas guzzler with tail fins.
Opera is like the old VW bug.
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