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<sarcasm>Dear lord, did you stop to think of the shareholders before you wrote that screed?!</sarcasm> SaaS is a virus that has drastically reduced the power o
by lenerdenator 2y ago
<sarcasm>Dear lord, did you stop to think of the shareholders before you wrote that screed?!</sarcasm>
SaaS is a virus that has drastically reduced the power of the individual creator for the benefit of people who really don't need more money. I wish there were a viable FLOSS alternative to more of Adobe's CS software.
- dartos 2y agoSaaS itself is fine. A lot of software has recurring costs for the saas company (think clarifai, chatgpt, or circleci) Subscriptions for software that you run on your own machine is a little much tho.
- lenerdenator 2y agoThe word for the activity occurring in your second sentence used to just be called "hosting". The problem is that there are fewer and fewer pieces of software that aren't hosted somewhere.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoGotcha capitalism with a side of rent-seeking. If indies need it, then sure, it can be necessary to sustain smaller shops that have to support backend/cloud features and multiple OSes that churn APIs faster than a newspaper.
- datavirtue 2y agoIsn't the shareholder us?