Explain the differences between freeware, donationware, shareware and open source software.

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Freeware is distributed without a use or licensing fee
Donationware is freeware that requests a donation to support continued development
Shareware is commercial software that users can try out during an evaluation period
Open source is software developed by a loose-knit team of programmers who collaborate to improve the software and agree to make it available to all users.

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