Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Andrew Fluegelman
     
         A successful attorney, editor of {PC World Magazine},
        and author of the the {MS-DOS} communications program {PC-TALK
        III}, written in 1982.  He once owned the trademark
        "{freeware}" but it wasn't enforced after his disappearance.
     
        In 1985, Fluegelman was diagnosed with cancer.  He was last
        seen a week later, on 1985-07-06, when he left his Marin
        County home to go to his office in Tiburon.  He called his
        wife later that day and has not been heard from since.  His
        car was found at Vista Point on the north end of the Golden
        Gate Bridge.
     
        [San Francisco Examiner Sunday Magazine, October 1985].
     
        {Shareware history (http://paulspicks.com/history.asp)}.
     
        {NEWSBYTES article
        (http://textfiles.fisher.hu/news/freeware.txt)}.
     
        {(http://doenetwork.bravepages.com/579dmca.html)}.
     
        (2003-07-25)