Z:gnu-www-ja-digital-inclusion-in-freedom--fb5434-Typical proprietary software g/en

Typical proprietary software gives you only a binary, whose actions are controlled by the developer, and not by you. A new practice called &ldquo;software as a service,&rdquo; or &ldquo;SaaS,&rdquo; gives you even less control. With SaaS you don't even get a copy of the program you can run. Instead, you send your data to a server, a program runs there, and the server sends you back the result. If users have a binary, they could reverse-engineer it and patch it if they are really determined. With SaaS, they can't even do that.