Carticiel

A carticiel ( cardware in English) is a Partagiciel whose author asks, for only remuneration of a regular use, the sending of a Postcard.

Advantages

For the author

The carticiel makes it possible the author of a program

to have an estimate (even largely underestimated) of the popularity of its program;
to receive mail of the whole world (especially since the advent of Internet which allows a distribution without physical contact between individuals).

The carticiel thus provides an alternative solution

to the paying software, whose cost is dissuasive and sometimes prohibitory for the people with low-income;
with the free software, of which it is difficult to estimate success.

For the user

The sending of a postcard enables him to express its recognition at a very moderate cost. Moreover, it is of a exchange of sympathy , or about a exchange of good processes (a postcard against the use of a software), which the money does not enter concerned.

History

The concept was invented by Aaron Gilles, originator of JPEGView.

Thereafter, of the derived concepts were invented, to start with the emailware , that one could translate by Courrielliciel , in which the regular user must send a email to the author of the program.

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