In 2000, while developing an e-learning and e-service business model, Henry Poole met with Richard Stallman in Amsterdam where they discussed the ASP loophole in GPLv2.
PayPal was an instance of this type, and their volume was one way to lower the unit cost of each transaction.
New provisions cover the Application service provider loophole of software distribution: Distribution and/or Communication (of software) includes providing on-line "access to its essential functionalities".
SyncShield supports both Service Providers and operators that offer mobile device management for businesses as a managed (MSP) or hosted service (ASP).
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Users can run the software on their own server infrastructure or purchase it on-demand as an ASP solution.
USi, located in Annapolis, Maryland, was founded in 1998 by McCleary and was the first Application Service Provider that enabled clients to avail themselves of the functionality of packaged software applications like PeopleSoft, Oracle and Siebel without having to purchase the software or operate the computing infrastructure.