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Blackberry Blackout Threat to Software as Service?

Posted by Zonk on from the executives-uncoupled dept.

TheIndifferentiate writes "In light of how CEOs are reacting to a possible court injunction which could shutdown their RIM BlackBerry service, what impact do you think this will have on the 'Software as a Service' business model? The conventional wisdom in some commercial software corners has it that the threat of patent litigation should stop Open Source Software development in its tracks. If my business depends on an OSS application, and it gets shut down, I can potentially go on about my business as I have the executables and wouldn't have to stop using them until someone came knocking at my door. If an SaaS application gets shut down and my business depends on it, I'm dead in the water. Seems like one of the prime arguments against OSS also takes out SaaS too. Rhetorically speaking, how could a commercial ISV in good faith talk any business out of an OSS application and into an SaaS application?"

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  1. Get Over It, get a cell phone by My_guzzi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just Yack

  2. IANAL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I ANAL AND IT'S CLEAR YOU ANAL, SO LET'S GET IT ON BIG BOY. I WANT TO FUCK YOU IN THE ASS WHILE YOU GIVE ME A REACH AROUND. K?

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  3. Funny my mpx220 works by 0xdeaddead · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    just fine, thankyou very much. Blackberry users deserve the disconnect for forcing IT to load that half baked server & screwing with their brain dead phones.