However, maintaining a project over the course of years is not effortless on the part of the provider, as explicitly stated in the article. The problem isn't in

However, maintaining a project over the course of years is not effortless on the part of the provider, as explicitly stated in the article. The problem isn't in the software itself being duplicated, it's in the labour around providing the service. To continue with the (now tortured) bbq analogy: as the sausages go cold (=software ages), someone has to cook up more fresh ones.