On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 22:49:00 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> On 7/30/2015 9:48 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> If you'd asked me 10 years ago what I thought of SaaS, I'd have said
>> that I thought it was a scam.  Now that I've seen it up close in a
>> company that sells with that model, and have had the growth trajectory
>> explained by financial people who understand it *and* who understand
>> how to explain it, I see the benefits, both to the company and to the
>> customer and end user.
>>
>> A loyal customer for a software company isn't a customer who buys once
>> and never comes back - even if they never change products.  A loyal
>> customer is a customer who continues to fund further development so the
>> developers can continue to improve the product for the benefit of the
>> customer.
>>
>> Jim
>>
> However... With respect, I already pay like $30-40 a month for access to
> certain online games. To suggest that I have to pay for the OS they run
> on as well, and a similar amount.. 

Not all operating systems are free.  Someone has to develop them, and 
those developers need to eat.

But my comment was more about SaaS in general, not OSaaS.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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