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What is your point? The issue isn't that I'm seeing it, it's the level of entitlement people feel they have to free stuff.
I remember using winzip frequently, I don't remember ever paying for it, ditto mirc. It would have been a damn sight more inconvenient if they'd actually ended the 21 day trial vs clicking a button after 30s, no? Shareware was primarily limited trials - you usually had to pay for the full version.
The name died because we didn't need to share the disks any more, it grew into modern freemium apps, mtx and ad supported software, I'm not sure I like any of those more.
OS has grown, as has the complexity of free programmes, sure, the number has grown because there are a lot more devs, people have always been willing to give software away - they should be seen as generous, not the base level of expectation.
I still don't see why any of that should stop people wanting to get paid for the work they're doing and I do find it somewhat bizarre the level of expectation people have that others give away software then maintain and support it for free.