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:—Leo Tolstoy, ''Anna Karenina''}}{{c|Devil}} | :—Leo Tolstoy, ''Anna Karenina''}}{{c|Devil}} | ||
{{d|Software as a service|/ˈsɒftweər | {{d|Software as a service|/ˈsɒftweər əz ə ˈsɜːvɪs/|n|}} | ||
A fancy way of selling a warranty on a toaster. | |||
Charging a running cost for software which, by reference to its own ''raison d’être'' shouldn’t ''need'' a lot of maintenance, unless you ''built it'' to need maintenance. “[[SAAS]]” to its friends; glorified ''[[rent-seeking]]'' to the poor sods who have it imposed on them, software as a service is the disguised ''re''intermediation of a function by a tool purportedly there to remove it. It is popular as it is the only business model most [[reg tech entrepreneur]]s have managed to figure out. | |||
If your software were any good you would design a [[user interface|user-interface]] easy enough for the [[meatware]] to deal with ''so you didn’t need a service contract''. Right? | If your software were any good you would design a [[user interface|user-interface]] easy enough for the [[meatware]] to deal with ''so you didn’t need a service contract''. Right? | ||