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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by thomasz on Thursday April 30, 2015 @07:37AM (#9464397)
That was 2001. There was no SAS loophole to exploit. If you desired to sell software, you had to ship it. In a box. The GPL was as viable for businesses back then as the AGPL is today.
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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by dragonwriter on Thursday April 30, 2015 @04:03PM (#9467311)
> That was 2001. There was no SAS loophole to exploit. If you desired to sell software, you had to ship it.

People have been selling access to remotely hosted services since long before 2001 (since before the web, the FSF/GPL, or even the internet or even ARPAnet existed.)

The thing now referred to as "SaaS" has been a thing a lot longer than the name "Software-as-a-Service" or the acronym "SaaS" to refer to the concept has existed.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by sukilot on Friday May 01, 2015 @02:44AM (#9469864)
In 2001 I sold a closed-source commercial product that ran on Linux and used LGPL librsries.
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