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by tomschwiha
993 days ago
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In contrary I like PhpStorm (and other Jetbrains software) which has a nice SAAS license. You always own the old versions or you keep subscribed and pay for upgrades. With evolving software (aka never finished) someone has to pay for the upgrades. In the best case its the existing user base. But true, most SAAS is just cash cow milking. |
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Not all software subscriptions are SaaS. See, e.g., here: https://www.dataversity.net/saas-and-subscription-complement...
SaaS means someone else runs the software and your access to it is mediated by their service (usually a networked service).
Some SaaS tests:
If you can keep running it when your subscription runs out, it's not SaaS. If it runs on your own hardware, it's not SaaS.
This concept creep elides the extraordinary level of alienation inherent in SaaS, which is exceptional even for proprietary software. This overly broad usage of the term can make the tradeoffs involved¹ in actual SaaS seem less severe than they are.
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1: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...