互联网改变了一切,对与网络密切相关的计算机软件领域,也不例外。共享软件(Shareware)和自由软件(Freeware)是从个人业余BBS时代开始出现的软件发布、传播、使用甚至协作开发的新形式,在Internet时代达到顶峰并广为人知。无数共享软件利用网络进行快速而广泛的传播,为原本名不见经传的作者带来了新的成功机遇;以著名 The Internet has changed everything, and it is no exception to the field of computer software that is closely related to the Internet. Shareware and Freeware are new forms of software distribution, distribution, use, and even collaborative development that began with the amateur BBS era, culminating and well known in the Internet age. Numerous shareware networks make rapid and widespread use of the Web to bring new and successful opportunities to an otherwise unknown author;