How Software is Built » SaaS http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:53:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 2006-2007 scottswigart@technologyevangelism.com (How Software is Built) scottswigart@technologyevangelism.com (How Software is Built) posts 1440 How Software is Built How Software is Built scottswigart@technologyevangelism.com No no http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg How Software is Built http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com 144 144 Web 2.0 on a collision course with Free Software http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2007/08/02/web-20-on-a-collision-course-with-free-software/ http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2007/08/02/web-20-on-a-collision-course-with-free-software/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:25:59 +0000 scottswigart http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2007/08/02/web-20-on-a-collision-course-with-free-software/ Our visit to OSCON last week exposed the rift between Web 2.0 (a.k.a Software as a Service) and open source. There’s an excellent roundup here. It’s short reading and hits the high points well.

Effectively, Web 2.0 lets you reap all the benefits of free and open source software (FOSS), without advancing FOSS. Smart people currently sit on both sides of the issue, but for the foreseeable future, the “SaaS loophole” will remain.

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