Association of Shareware Professionals , ASP (abbreviation)

The Fruits of Honesty Many shareware authors are members of the Association of Shareware Professionals, an international trade organization.

The ASP Advantage CD-ROM, second edition, for the first quarter of 1994, is manufactured and distributed by the Association of Shareware Professionals, in Muskegon, Mich.

As a result of the attendance and hard work of such industry leaders as Jim "Button" Knopf and Bob Wallace and many others, the Association of Shareware Professionals was created in 1987.

The Association of Software Professionals (ASP), formerly Association of Shareware Professionals, is a professional association for authors and developers of freeware, commercial, and shareware computer software.

Under threat of government regulation, industry groups like the Software Publishers Association (SPA), the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP), and others had concerns about the intrusion of the government, and the costs, delays and subjective judgements of a review-committee-based system.