This looks like the SaaSS article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;who-does-that-server-really-serve.en.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;who-does-that-server-really-s...</a><p>The payoff comes at the very end, &quot;Do your own computing with your own copy of a free program, for your freedom&#x27;s sake.&quot;<p>Nah, I&#x27;ll pay someone to do compute (and maintain the API, infrastructure, etc.) for me.  I&#x27;m a huge free software advocate, but in the SaaS situation, I&#x27;m not paying for a program, I&#x27;m paying for results.<p>As such, it&#x27;s immaterial how I get those results--they could have a roomful of people arranging bits by hand.  (What if that&#x27;s how they were doing it?  Would that represent a loss of freedom, if I were paying people to shuffle bits by hand?)<p>This particular essay seems like the RMS take on that old saw, &quot;if all you have is a hammer...&quot;