Many software developers, like myself, have a difficult time finding the right balance between respecting the rights of the users of their software (such as releasing the source code under a license ...

It’s a rare day when a shareware programmer gets firm statistics on the extent of software piracy, but just recently, I got that chance. You see, the company I work for – Ambrosia Software – writes ...

Goodbye, Tucows Downloads: Software Download Site Finally Retires In a way, Tucows Downloads was an early app store for the internet in the 1990s and early 2000s to help people find freeware and ...

Remember Tucows Downloads? The freeware and shareware downloads website is finally retiring. “Tucows Downloads has had an incredible run,” CEO Elliot Noss writes in a blog post. “We’re thankful to the ...

Remember Tucows Downloads? The freeware and shareware downloads website is finally retiring. “Tucows Downloads has had an incredible run,” CEO Elliot Noss writes in a blog post. “We’re thankful to the ...