RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116380044468638699

Microsoft Office is one of the largest #welfare programs in the world. it diverts REAL billions of dollars from the public coffers of governments, into the pockets of Bill Gates and his #EpsteinClass cronies.

Brasil pays for basic universal health care and UBI for kids because it said NO to Microsoft in 2005 & moved to #linux & #LibreOffice.

thanks to Trump, #Microsoft finally lost the 2nd largest economy in the European Union and the 7th largest in the world.

merci a la France.

@blogdiva that’s a bit of an exaggeration because a MS account isn’t exactly expensive (one of the main reasons why it’s hard to get my company to move away from it) and when you adopt open source you’re supposed to support the developers financially as well. I just think it’s stupid for governments to go along with creating such a quasi-monopoly.

DUDE they are not cheap per computer; and it’s the way they’ve entrapped whole governments in their servers with Outlook.

MS could have never made milliards without government contracts. public funding is their bread and butter.

they’re like the parasite that ends up eating it’s host tongue. sure, the fish can go on living, but it now has a necrotic stub instead of its own tongue.

why would you pay to have a parasite to maim you?

@TimothyRoes