Software-as-a-service

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Rent-seeking by means of intellectual property. The equivalent of selling a warranty on a toaster. Charging a running cost for a software application which shouldn’t require a lot of maintenance. If your software were any good you would design a user-interface easy enough for the meatware to deal with so you didn’t need a service contract.