I used to work in a German research lab around the time Germany declared that all government software should be FOSS. Maybe half the research staff were over 35

I used to work in a German research lab around the time Germany declared that all government software should be FOSS. Maybe half the research staff were over 35 but under 55 so of course they were the matlab generation. To prevent a revolt they retained 50 licences that could be checked out from the licensing server. This was for around 750 total scientific staff. So someone made a listserv that you could email to request that someone give up their licence if they weren't using it. This listserv probably generated around 100 emails a day.