I think we are both primarily referring to things that are pretending to be both, “software as a service” (SaaS). They are renting us things with no option to buy and no depreciation, using artificial software mechanisms to enforce it.
The major industry players have also completed a regulatory capture, controlling legal policy to protect the practice that nearly every human but them believes should be outlawed.
Your last paragraph is what I was talking about, software, not services.
I think we are both primarily referring to things that are pretending to be both, “software as a service” (SaaS). They are renting us things with no option to buy and no depreciation, using artificial software mechanisms to enforce it.
The major industry players have also completed a regulatory capture, controlling legal policy to protect the practice that nearly every human but them believes should be outlawed.