[kwlug-disc] Software and a Service versus "as a Service"

[Mikalai Birukou]

I just received an email from a team/company that makes a "lens for 
kubernetes". Email says something about excitement and a new version.

We had a round table on kubernetes, when I showed lens. Few months later 
I needed it, and a new version already insisted on me having cloud 
account. I had to meticulously go through history to find the last 
release that allows you to use it as software, as expected.

You don't even get Software from "Software as a Service" vendor. This 
obviousness is even in the name. When software eats the world, and it is 
your section that gets eaten, you want software to be yours. But with 
Software as a Service, it is not my software that attempts to eat my 
part of the world (e.g. control of my infrastructure). Instead of giving 
me Software, they attempt to fool me into subscribing to Service, 
resulting in me not getting Software.

Software and a Service -- is what we look for.