Linux Lingam wrote: > for software has jumped out of tape-reels and floppies, away from cds > to more of downloads, and quite soon, > will rapidly move away from hard-disks, to the 'hosted computing > model' and its ilk. > > or, in brutally simplistic words, 'software inside a web-browser' > available on almost any device, but hosted and maintained over servers > on the internet.
not 'software has ..' or 'software inside a web browser' but services provided via a web browser. In that effect, it isn't any different from the Nokia phone you use (or, even the Nokia keyboard that has the driver bits fairly opaque). What I comprehend from your (rather sensationalist) first paragraph is for the FSF to start looking into areas which are currently being talked about inside the EFF. >From the time the mobile phones and related embedded devices provided capacities to access applications by using IP addresses, SaaS has been in rapid usage. However, SaaS, while becoming larger in footprint isn't going to do away with SaaA (software as an application). What it will do is bring into forefront a newer set of legislative and privacy issues primarily related to data controls and data restrictions (and thus, data access) -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
