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Note that the acronym is Baas... which is Dutch for boss (and incidentally the source of the English word too) :)

• therein 8y ago
  I can feel it, there is an amazing startup name waiting to be discovered there. Huur een BaaS or something of that sort.
  • lucb1e 8y ago
    Baas as a Service. Truly FOSS-style acronym (one could say it's Unix-like (not to be confused with Unox-like (Unox is the worst)).
    • rbanffy 8y ago
      I love RARA's.
• thaumasiotes 8y ago
  Hey, that was more interesting than I expected. It looks like "boss" is in fact a loan from Dutch rather than a cognate: > Middle Dutch baes, of obscure origin. If original sense was "uncle," perhaps it is related to Old High German basa "aunt," but some sources discount this theory. > The Dutch form baas is attested in English from 1620s as the standard title of a Dutch ship's captain. The word's popularity in U.S. may reflect egalitarian avoidance of master (n.) as well as the need to distinguish slave from free labor. https://www.etymonline.com/word/boss https://www.etymonline.com/word/boss