25 Years Ago: Free, Easy, Software Begins

PC World: “He was already something of a celebrity in the wider world of personal computing as the father of ‘freeware,’ a concept that he had popularized, starting in late 1982, with the release of his trailblazing communiaTwenty-five years ago, a writer named Andrew Fluegelman became the editor of a new magazine–this one. He was already something of a celebrity in the wider world of personal computing as the father of “freeware,” a concept that he had popularized, starting in late 1982, with the release of his trailblazing communications program, called PC-Talk.cations program, called PC-Talk…”