Sure but the idea was that open source should be free and available to all, no longer constrained by the cost of physical atoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Sure but the idea was that open source should be free and available to all, no longer constrained by the cost of physical atoms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#%22Open%22_versus_%22free%22_versus_%22free_and_open%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#%22Open%22_versus_... SaaS is the polar opposite. It's not free and open in either of the senses. It's about as far as you can get from the GNU manifesto.