What if a software company put the user first? Now one company does...
Software as an Asset solves the maintenance problem ethically because it gives the user legal power to protect their human right to freedom.
These license screens are written by lawyers to protect you and not the software company. Vendor lock-in is now impossible. Instead of exerting control over the user, the software company has to keep customers by making good software, a novel concept in the software industry.
And this is how software becomes an Asset.
The first thing you notice different about SaaA is that – you don’t have to keep buying the same software over and over again, every few years. Buy once, keep it and never be forced to change to a different version. And because it follows standards, any vendor can support it online or locally and this creates a free market in software.
At our company, we’d love to keep you as our client forever! But because we respect you, we refuse to do it unethically.
With no end of life date for software, you can invest in your IT systems and not just ‘keep them running’. Instead, refine your software, embed your knowledge, automate, customise and enhance its value and lower the cost to your business – exponentially.
SaaA is truly an Asset.
As there is no legal obligation to pay license fees, running costs are about 50% lower for SaaA than for SaaS and with all the same benefit of remote hosting and no maintenance, accessible via a web browser for remote working.
With SaaA, the customer really does comes first.
You need the software that defends your rights and your freedom.
You need SaaA.
In order to understand why SaaA is so important, we need to take a quick look at what came before that wasn’t in the best interests of freedom.
Software in the 1980’s and 1990’s was very expensive to maintain and the software company held all the legal power. If you wanted to use the software, you had use it on their terms. They were the only ones who could maintain the software, legally.
Users were vendor-locked which meant they could be forced to upgrade and be financially exploited by the software company but they accepted it because there was no alternative
Most users just clicked through those license screens without reading them and gave away all their rights and freedom. Because the users needed the software. By the 2000’s and 2010’s users were presented with Software as a Service or SaaS which solved the maintenance problem by running remotely, but now the software companies held even more power. They were the only ones who could maintain the software legally and physically. Users were even more deeply vendor-locked as their software, data and the computer the it runs on were controlled by the software company. Now users were automatically forced to upgrade and financially exploited by the software company but they accepted it because they didn’t know there was an alternative. Most users just clicked through those new license screens without reading them and again gave away all their rights and freedom. The software companies pushed users to an SaaS license model over a perpetual (SaaL) model because it generated up to 5 times more revenue for the shareholders as a debt that the user could never pay off. But the users needed the software. © 2020 erp²
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