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It's the end of being able purchase any kind of perpetual license to your software. It'll all be on the web and it will be paid per month. When that meets a company with an aggressive sunset policy or if they have an outage it won't be a good time.


Seems unlikely. Even if that is a trend right now, if there is a need for other paradigms, then there will be people making and using them.


But with opensource software I can run it on any server I want (AWS, Azure, my own). I'm still in control.

I do this for all sorts of applications.


One could also see it as an option that makes contributing to open source so much easier for small edits. There are plenty of times when I am working that I would make a small change or refactoring to a project, but the idea of cloning, setting up an environment, figuring out how they run tests, etc. makes for too much of a barrier to entry.


It probably requires updating user protection laws to deal with new business models and enforce interoperability.

We are still in the Wild West Phase of SAAS.


We already have a draft of them from timesharing days.


If someone says "The trend towards smaller cars suggests trucks and SUVs will cease to exist.."

Not going to happen..




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