Money transfer from the German Federal Administration to Microsoft:

[kirschner@mastodon.social]

RE: https://gruene.social/@Gerbsen/116052492129846084

Money transfer from the German Federal Administration to Microsoft:

2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro
2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro
2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro

(Source: German Parliament 21/4006 page 96 https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/040/2104006.pdf )

Daniel asks what #FreeSoftware #OpenSource could have been procured and developed with such sums and how you feel about when you see those numbers. He also fears this trend will continue.

[gwilymgj@mastodon.social]

@kirschner I figured it would be a big number but WTF!

[mfeilner@mastodon.social]

@kirschner #steuergeldexport

[pettet8@mastodon.social]

@kirschner @Gerbsen

Und sie benennen nicht die telemetry data die Microsoft bekomen hat gratis und was verwendet und verkauft wird..

Genau, ein von die ursache das Denmark und Schlesswig-Holstein ihre behorden von Microsoft abholen und Open-source gehn.

Auch in Frankreich sind die 600K Gendarmerie schon auf open-source.

Die regierung had in 2024 ein open-source project gestarted und ab ende 2027 mussen 2.5 million beambten gewechselt haben. Source: https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

[zikko@toot.cat]

@kirschner 460M€ => Senior Dev is about 100k€. This equals about 5000 Senior Devs, full time.

I bet that amount of devs would make a lot of really, really good software.

[fajfer@mastodon.social]

@zikko @kirschner and it's JUST Germany. Imagine if we pooled resources as the EU

[iusondemand@mastodon.uno]

@kirschner thank you

[mvb19@mastodon.social]

@kirschner that will be 1B in 2 years time, wow. It doubles every 2 years.

[unqualifiedtechbros@mastodon.social]

@kirschner
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227390419_Against_Intellectual_Monopoly

Supporting intellectual monopoly which includes the likes of Microsoft, is supporting externalities which have devastating consequences for society.

[lostprototype@mastodon.social]

@kirschner Brilliant question to be asking. And lays bare the lie of "build versus by".

[danielswann@mastodon.social]

@fajfer @zikko @kirschner and then factor in the cost/benefit of essentially *owning* vs *leasing*.

there was a time when this made sense, but now EU citizens are essentially paying for microsoft to play in the AI bubble

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@kirschner

Utterly ridiculous indeed... imaging the amount of software, infrastructure, knowledge and jobs this could have led to in Europe... time for change!

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@kirschner

Imagine the lies of all the open source projects if they got just a few pennies from all that money

[sonlight@mastodon.social]

@kirschner Whats all the payments for? They look more like covert donations in support of some dark agenda

[sonlight@mastodon.social]

@kirschner Jaw Dropping big number lol. The financial Markets is Shocked