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DOGE claims there are 227 unused VSCode licenses in DoL
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#12Well, that will surely balance the projected budget deficit. As Thomas Massie put it, "over 10 years, this budget will add $20 trillion to US debt." To even mention VSCode licenses is to be in -efficient. DOGE wasting tweets on it reeks of desperation.
As far as I can tell, the Musk reality distortion field around DOGE is collapsing. Multiple agency heads specifically told their employees to ignore the request for 5 status updates, many employees in other departments simply didn't comply. At best Trump's support was "they should be fired, maybe". The DOGE site already made significant changes to their report that shows cuts, since basically all of the ones in the top 10 contained significant errors that were trivially identified. Republican leaders talking to their constituents are getting significant pushback about Musk's "asshole manager" attitude.
None of this is to say Musk won't keep messing things up, and may get more real support from Trump in the future, but the reality distortion field that allowed him to go into agencies with US Marshalls a few weeks ago is not working any more.
Re: DOGE claims there are 227 unused VSCode licenses in DoL
#13This is the really nice thing about OSS: if you don't like it, you can get back all the money you paid for it.
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#141. Fire a bunch of employees.
2. Hey, look at all these unused licenses! More Marxist waste!!!!
(Licenses like this are usually bulk deals, btw.)
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#151. Fire a bunch of employees. 2. Hey, look at all these unused licenses! More Marxist waste!!!! (Licenses like this are usually bulk deals, btw.)
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Re: DOGE claims there are 227 unused VSCode licenses in DoL
#16Well, that will surely balance the projected budget deficit. As Thomas Massie put it, "over 10 years, this budget will add $20 trillion to US debt." To even mention VSCode licenses is to be in -efficient. DOGE wasting tweets on it reeks of desperation.
As far as I can tell, the Musk reality distortion field around DOGE is collapsing. Multiple agency heads specifically told their employees to ignore the request for 5 status updates, many employees in other departments simply didn't comply. At best Trump's support was "they should be fired, maybe". The DOGE site already made significant changes to their report that shows cuts, since basically all of the ones in the t…
I think one of the reasons for DOGE is to provide Trump with some deniability. Elon screws the pooch hard enough, Trump disowns the whole thing. Trump will never provide more than tentative support.
Re: DOGE claims there are 227 unused VSCode licenses in DoL
#17Most bulk software licenses are offered in blocks not individual seats as it is impractical or for all intents impossible to manage exact per seat licenses at scale. I'm willing to bet that those quoted numbers are for "up to" counts. For a real world example, one of the clients I consult with (a large university) where everyone has access to the Adobe Suite. There is no way they track this by individual deployment.…
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Re: DOGE claims there are 227 unused VSCode licenses in DoL
#18And how many unused Linux licenses?! (VSCode is under, essentially, the MIT license; my guess is that someone entered a dummy number into some license management tool.)
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#19I have to assume they meant Visual Studio licenses, but whoever penned the tweet didn't know there was a difference between VSCode and Visual Studio. I mean, the names and logos do look pretty similar.