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Baitware refers to very limited or defective computersoftware which is made available gratis/free of charge, similar to freeware.
The term is composed by bait and -ware and refers to a buggy freeware software, released to deceptively attract users and drive them to commercial products.
Sometimes offering baitware through popular download [web portal|portals] is a way for a software developer to market his other products as those portals normally provide a link to the developer's site.
Often the offered products are also reviewed on such portals by either the users downloading and using them or the editors.
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