guiltware

2 definitions found

guiltware - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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]
  

guiltware - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.