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Sure, the stock market is crashing, and the US is probably headed for a recession, but at least the Department of Labor won’t be paying for those expensive VS Code licenses anymore 🧠

Jon A. Cruz

@tonybaloney i knew they'd not know about how software licensing bundles, especially from Microsoft, work... but when I saw the VSCode ones being trumpeted like that I pointed out to my wife how that proves how far removed from actual business decisions Musk was. Had no clue and just 'handled' by his employees who do

@joncruz they already removed $4bn worth of claimed “savings” after people investigated them and found out they were invalid. You don’t need to look very hard either.

@joncruz like what is a “cybersecurity” license.

@tonybaloney exactly. Heck, right off hand i can't name all the different "cybersecurity" products my day job company alone sells.

@tonybaloney I'm trying to remember if that was before or after they removed the one $1.9 billion saving that was actually done under Biden