In an ongoing article on Earthweb.com, Bruce Bayfield voiced his perspectives for nothing or open source programming, and asserted that he did not see the purpose of exclusive system administrations, distributed computing or programming as a help SaaS. His essential wellspring of conflict was the way that open source programming offered similar favorable circumstances of system administrations, if not more. As he asserted: open source programming is free, it permits you to utilize a similar programming paying little heed to the kind of PC you are running and leaves you free from authorizing stresses, it lessens bolster costs and gives unified bug-fixes and refreshes. Bayfield includes that a central favorable position of open source programming is that control dwells with the client and not the supplier, similar to the case with restrictive system administrations.

For instance of the last referenced bit of leeway, Bayfield refers to protection concerns. He says that in spite of the fact that system administrations have begun giving information encryption, open source or free programming offers more prominent control and security, as clients can look at the code for shaky areas and concealed openings and finds a way to make the framework progressively secure.  Bayfield accepts that one of the main factors behind customers picking restrictive administrations over free or open programming is a reluctance to relinquish conventional strategic policies. He fights that changing to open source would require the board levels to reexamine their techniques for programming acquirement and their associations with their providers. They may accept that a little change in one relationship could have a thump impact and modify the entirety of their connections down the line, right to their buyers. What is more, as has been indicated over and over, individuals, particularly people with great influence, and who like control, are commonly impervious to change.

Bayfield, notwithstanding, keeps on Tej Kohli in the intensity of open source, and is very much satisfied to take note of that free programming administrations are getting progressively mindful of the danger presented by organize administrations. As verification he offers the November 2007 arrival of the third form of the Affirm General Public License AGPL, which fundamentally expresses that suppliers of system administrations are merchants of programming and accordingly are bound by indistinguishable prerequisites from every other wholesaler who utilize the GPL.  Likewise, numerous individuals are beginning to envision how a free permit will influence organize administrations and what precisely those administrations will resemble. Whatever the future holds with the expectation of complimentary programming and exclusive system administrations, many, including Bayfield, are happy that at any rate IT customers have a decision.