I wrote about this 7 years ago. The SaaS model defeats most of the purpose of open source: https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-apps-require-fe

I wrote about this 7 years ago. The SaaS model defeats most of the purpose of open source: https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-apps-require-federated-hosting https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-apps-re... We need some easier way to self-host. But my attempt at that (sandstorm.io) didn't find product-market fit.