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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>postcardware</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="post.html" title="post"/><link rel="next" href="Postels-Prescription.html" title="Postel's Prescription"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">postcardware</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="post.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Postels-Prescription.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="postcardware"/><dt xmlns="" id="postcardware"><b>postcardware</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A kind of <a href="../S/shareware.html"><i class="glossterm">shareware</i></a> that borders on
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<a href="../F/freeware.html"><i class="glossterm">freeware</i></a>, in that the author requests only that
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satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This
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practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are
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otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically
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related to real estate ‘sales’ in which $1 changes hands just
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to keep the transaction from being a gift.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="post.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Postels-Prescription.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">post </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Postel's Prescription</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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