https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/21/dis ... ses-again/
https://discmaster.textfiles.com/
I am just adding here some context, to make the link easier to retrieve on the forum.
Discmaster is a repository that is part of the internet archive (archive.org) : it stores freeware and shareware.
For some of them the original developers / websites no longer exist (except maybe on the wayback machine).
In all cases, it is now impossible to buy a full version.
Some of these apps are really excellent programs, and I would not be surprised if some voices express the need to "recover" (or access) all the functionalities of these apps.
I remember a story I heard about a company (let's call it company A) that had just bought another company (company B) including of course all their software products (all rights included). It was supposed to be a great deal .... until the day company A started to get calls from customers of company B asking for a replacement of their damaged floppy they never were able to copy because the floppy had some copy protection. Company A did not know were was the source code, had just a couple of floppies, that they did not know how to duplicate ....