In a SaaS World, Does Source Code Take a Back Seat to Services?

by Sam Dean - Apr. 16, 2008Comments (1)

There have been strong signs recently that open source has a promising place in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) arena. Alistair Croll, in a post over on GigaOm.com, has a good discussion of how irrelevant source code itself can become in the world of software-driven services.

"Even the open-source movement is feeling the change," he notes. "Recent modifications to the third revision of the GNU Public License recognize that it’s the service, not the source code, that has value." Check out Alistair's thoughts on the relative value of "app tone" versus the value of the underlying code for service-oriented applications.

Do you agree that source code takes a back seat to services in the SaaS arena?


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So what does mean for open source?? Is it that OS isn't going to be as much of a factor as SaaS picks up steam??

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