I like the GPL, and I like SAAS. It's not an "end-run around the GPL" unless you believe that the object of the GPL is to stop people from making money from pr

I like the GPL, and I like SAAS. It's not an "end-run around the GPL" unless you believe that the object of the GPL is to stop people from making money from programming. If, instead, you believe the rightful purpose of the GPL is encouraging people to control the software on their own hardware, then SAAS fits in with that goal quite well. Letting people use my computer with my software on it for some task does not make my computer (or my software) theirs, and it shouldn't.