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It's the end of being able purchase any kind of perpetual license to your software. It'll all be on the web and it will be paid per month. When that meets a com
by cube00 5y ago
It's the end of being able purchase any kind of perpetual license to your software. It'll all be on the web and it will be paid per month. When that meets a company with an aggressive sunset policy or if they have an outage it won't be a good time.
- Vespasian 5y agoIt probably requires updating user protection laws to deal with new business models and enforce interoperability. We are still in the Wild West Phase of SAAS.
- pjmlp 5y agoWe already have a draft of them from timesharing days.
- dgb23 5y agoSeems unlikely. Even if that is a trend right now, if there is a need for other paradigms, then there will be people making and using them.
- CodeGlitch 5y agoBut with opensource software I can run it on any server I want (AWS, Azure, my own). I'm still in control. I do this for all sorts of applications.
- tclancy 5y agoOne could also see it as an option that makes contributing to open source so much easier for small edits. There are plenty of times when I am working that I would make a small change or refactoring to a project, but the idea of cloning, setting up an environment, figuring out how they run tests, etc. makes for too much of a barrier to entry.
- dmingod666 5y agoIf someone says "The trend towards smaller cars suggests trucks and SUVs will cease to exist.." Not going to happen..