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To be competitive with SaaS, open source software needs to have a web version because there’s so much less friction to use web software compared to desktop soft

by jitl 2y ago

To be competitive with SaaS, open source software needs to have a web version because there’s so much less friction to use web software compared to desktop software. So desktop thick clients with native UI need to be maintained in addition to, not instead of, a web UI. Most open source options barely have the resources to build a web UI, asking also for a thick client for each user operating system platform seems unrealistic.

mhx1138 2y ago
OSS is unfortunately an overloaded term. But assuming it is about FOSS, than software that runs on the user’s machine gives so much more freedom. Can software even be free for a consumer, when it is really unpractical to run it yourself, because it needs a server?