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by pjmlp 1628 days ago
They had it back in the day with stuff like the Walnut Creek CD-ROM distributions.

In the long run, the only monetary solution is to go back to some kind of PD/Shareware, which is what all those public core, commercial full solution end up being.

30 years ago we called those public core parts, playable demos.