"Anonymous" wrote

| A service is something that does something useful.
| So a maid who makes the bed is a service.
|
| Linuxs does something useful. It is a service as much as it is
| software. It is perhaps a service enabled by software much as the
| bedmaking is a service enabled by a maid.
|
| My lawn mower would be a service with this explanation.
|

And he's missed the whole point of the idea of
what software companies, MS in particular, are
doing by defining their software as a service. for
some reason he's seems to not want to know.