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Shoutouts to MASSGRAVE. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 69 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

Every business and government in the world? Once when I started a new job, the IT guy asked if I needed to use things like Word or Excel, because it's $500 per year per employee for an Office365 subscription and they're trying to keep the costs down. That's on top of the Windows subscription.

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  • [–] 19 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

    I wouldn’t say every business, I’ve definitely worked somewhere where all our machines were cracked. but that’s going to be the exception not the rule obviously.

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

    Back when I was in the Army... we definitely had some means to tactically acquire Windows licenses.

    I worked IT in the Army and whenever they asked me how I did it, I told them to not worry about it.

    We also never paid for winrar. So if you wonder where that huge budget goes to, it is not to Windows Licenses or Winrar.

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  • [–] 16 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 child)

    I’m working at a university, and hoo boy, did we use a lot of cracked shit. And funniest thing is that half of that shit can be acquired legally for free as part of education licensing.

    I’m happy to be the part of reason why in recent years my department has been shifting towards FOSS alternatives. Like yeah, it’s not morally wrong to pirate from the likes of Adobe or Microsoft, but I’m not a fan of people even simply making a habit of using software from aforementioned companies.

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  • [–] 10 points 19 hours ago

    Most folks are on a license that includes m365/office, windows enterprise, exchange online, sharepoint online, some entra/intune/defender things and more for about $380/user per year.

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