That made sense in times where you packaged software and sold it in a store, once. Now people barely run local-only software any more, most people live in Google Chrome and only use permanently online software.

SaaS is the perfect model for software that's permanently being worked on.

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ginko an hour ago | parent [-]

>Now people barely run local-only software any more, most people live in Google Chrome and only use permanently online software.

Yes, because they were conditioned to do so by rent seeking companies.

	▲	dewey 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No because technology advanced and now everyone has a permanent online mini-computer with them at all times and we want to have the same documents we have at home/work also available on our phones.