Mastodawn

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.

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École des Bro-Arts 1d ago

@blogdiva Prior to the shift away from Microsoft Office, Brazil says says it spent ~121 million R$/year on all software licenses combined. Brazil's Unified Health System had an annual budget of approximately 100-140 billion R$/year from 2005-2010. I... I'm a huge free software enthusiast but like... that change provided Brazil with at most 0.12% of SUS funding requirements, right?

https://www.gov.br/iti/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/iti-na-midia/brazil-extends-microsoft-challenge-with-global-group-update3

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/909701468020377135/pdf/Twenty-years-of-health-system-reform-in-Brazil-an-assessment-of-the-sistema-unico-de-saude.pdf (see p39).

Brazil Extends Microsoft Challenge With Global Group (Update3)

Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia da Informação

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Nick Silkey 📻 N5ILK 🪓🪵 🪣💧

@aphyr @blogdiva one can imagine the internal capitalist psyche and resulting dialogue as we all lived this timeline globally. 🤔

"Bro, we are literally printing historically ungodly sums of money ... by selling 'the right' to a 'digital thing'. There is no trad means of production at play on our unit economics ... just a license." ✨

*hits blunt*

"Forget continuously compounding interest - this is straight up currency alchemy, bro." 🫠