• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    Imagine how much extra money the countries of the world would have if they didnt have to pay for microsoft licenses and stuff like dat

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      Never would have guessed world hunger and disease are because countries spent all their money on Windows licenses, great take

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        Lmao. Not windows alone, but i think there is a larger point to be made about recurring costs to governments from licenses, patents, monopolies, unrepairability, etc. Military spending is one that that is heavily affected by all of those and famously the world spends trillions on military, so there should be many billions of dollars that can be saved.

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        Yes, but Gates personally has been lobbying leaders all over the world for decades whenever there was any sort of momentum of governments switching to Linux. Sadly politicians are often corrupt or at least easy to manipulate.