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@tonybaloney@fosstodon.orgSure, the stock market is crashing, and the US is probably headed for a recession, but at least the Department of Labor won’t be paying for those expensive VS Code licenses anymore 
@tonybaloney i knew they'd not know about how software licensing bundles, especially from Microsoft, work... but when I saw the VSCode ones being trumpeted like that I pointed out to my wife how that proves how far removed from actual business decisions Musk was. Had no clue and just 'handled' by his employees who do
@joncruz they already removed $4bn worth of claimed “savings” after people investigated them and found out they were invalid. You don’t need to look very hard either.
@joncruz like what is a “cybersecurity” license.
@tonybaloney exactly. Heck, right off hand i can't name all the different "cybersecurity" products my day job company alone sells.
@tonybaloney I'm trying to remember if that was before or after they removed the one $1.9 billion saving that was actually done under Biden
@tonybaloney i mean, to be fair, you only pay with all the code your employer pays you to write. and part of your soul, but only like, the part of your soul that keeps thinking LLMs might actually help you migrate to a modern web framework from, you know, that old junk.
that old junk that's fine but the documentation requirements have shifted and it's easier to migrate (you think) than patching on some equally elderly documentation packages... oof. sorry. always making it about "me".
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MS365 is given to nonprofits for free or at a big discount, depending on the # of users. I'll bet the US pays little to nothing for these.
@tonybaloney @ferrata yes, they had first audit†, but what about second audit‡?
† DOGE
‡ Microsoft
@tonybaloney Like enough savings there to maybe pay for one of his DOGE employees, eh?
@tonybaloney I wonder how many of those licenses showed up as unused now due to them firing a bunch of people, folks taking an early pay out, or them shutting down a bunch of buildings.
Microsoft must have sold them the special gold plated vscode licenses.
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And WTF is a cybersecurity license?
@jferg 
true patriots don’t ask questions.
@tonybaloney I can guarantee out of an 1000 seat E5 bundle the 380 “not in use” 300 belong to recently fired workers and the other 80 belong to former senior employees’ accounts which got turned into shared mailboxes (which need a license) b/c everyone needs to keep their vast trove of emails/docs b/c nobody wants to put it in SharePoint. For Reasons. #O365
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What the fuck is a cybersecurity license
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God damn it now I want to make more stickers
@mav@hackers.town @tonybaloney@fosstodon.org probably endpoint security and the extra lisc is likely people with two machines and/or contractors with government furnished equipment
@mav@hackers.town @tonybaloney@fosstodon.org but also cool, don't keep any spare lisc around it is best when a new machine needs weeks of purchasing random shit to get it functional
apologies, I should have been clearer that I was being facetious.
@mav@hackers.town @tonybaloney@fosstodon.org sorry I was also complaining at the source in the original post because so much is being made over peanuts while making it harder to work and burning everything else down while rich bois get a payout, just frustrated in general
Fair enough. With licensing being the giant mess that it is, it could also be that their vendor either licenses in 2k or 5k or something blocks, or that it's cheaper to buy blocks that large, and so they buy more than they need because it ends up being cheaper than buying 100-head blocks or something...
Licensing is such a clusterfuck that this tweet essentially tells us nothing (except for the fact that someone is too stupid to live, re: VS Code licenses)
Ultimately as far as I'm concerned, DOGE deserves no benefit of any doubt.
@mav@hackers.town @tonybaloney@fosstodon.org exactly.... Lotta licensing packages are site-wide or with a nominal cap
Except gitlab, they refuse to do site licensing annoyingly
@tonybaloney A colleague of mine worked through the Dotcom bubble and told me how at the end the company started removing every other light bulb from the ceiling.
This gives that energy.