Why isn't vibe coding creating more shareware?

[watershawl]

Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, shareware was common - but now that almost anyone can vibe code software, why aren't we seeing more shareware?

[codingdave]

We do see it - patreon, buymeacoffee, donations of various kinds. Games with microtransactions. Shareware has just evolved.

[bediger4000]

Agreed but is there more of it? A virtual tsunami of it?

[apothegm]

Thats not really what shareware was, tho.

[jaggs]

I think people don't understand what shareware is any more.

[apothegm]

Shareware kind of gave way to OSS. Software is both shared and installed very differently from when people passed around cloned floppies or even DVDs.

[CqtGLRGcukpy]

I think society has evolved to the point where people want to make as much money as possible, so instead of shareware the person creating it charges money.