Z:gnu-www-ja-network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree--dcb51c-There is one case where a serv/en

There is one case where a service is directly comparable to a program: when using the service is equivalent to having a copy of a hypothetical program and running it yourself. In this case, we call it Software as a Service (SaaS ), or Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS &mdash; this term explains more clearly what the issue is), and such a service is always a bad thing. The job it does is the users' own computing, and the users ought to have full control over that. The way for users to have control over their own computing is to do it by running their own copies of a free program. Using someone else's server to do that computing implies losing control of it.