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I don't think we talk enough about how U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for Microsoft's technical debt. It's shocking to spend time with Federal Workers and
by breck 4y ago
I don't think we talk enough about how U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for Microsoft's technical debt.
It's shocking to spend time with Federal Workers and see how much of their days are wasted waiting for anti-virus and other bad closed source software, and then to realize we all are paying taxes to support this! Same goes for Oracle. BG and LarryE got the country to fund their yachts and stuck us with the bill.
I'm gonna run for Congress under a platform of banning any Federal money from being spent on closed source, non public domain software.
- jacobsenscott 4y agoAnd that's just a fraction of the waste. The government spends millions just managing compliance with software licenses. (source - extrapolating from my experience at a 3 person Microsoft shop 15 years ago) But this isn't technical debit - this is by design.