I wonder how much of that $80B is Microsoft licenses?
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| Bob_Robertson Feb 18, 2011 10:48 AM EDT |
need I say more? |
| tuxchick Feb 18, 2011 11:07 AM EDT |
I kept looking for the article-- 'Vivek Kundra thinks the cloud will save the government money!' Well? Yeah? So? |
| jdixon Feb 18, 2011 12:15 PM EDT |
> The US government has gone full bore into the Cloud as a way to cut its massive IT costs long-term Maybe the fact that I don't have any massive IT costs? The last machine I bought was for was for my wife. We bought it 18 months ago or so, and it cost about $170 (an off lease Dell from Intrechaoutlet). The previous one for me was gotten almost 4 years ago now and cost $350 (a new barebones unit from Mwave). Add in the $80 OEM Windows XP license for my wife's machine, and that's pretty much it. |
| hkwint Feb 18, 2011 10:09 PM EDT |
Yeah, I was thinking about that too Bob, but I'm afraid it will turn in a huge TOS-violation if I contemplate it much further, as I was also comparing it with other means the US government is destroying wealth. But when it comes to MS, I mean, it ends up at a US bank account, MS / Bill Gates pays some tax, US banks invest and loan (and derive!), some of it is given away to African people who buy US goods, lots is spent by MS personnel in the economy and such, and so on. Before you know it it's a whole massive complex chain reaction of 'follow the money'. But it suffers a bit from the entropy-syndrome I guess: The money only becomes 'less effective' down the chain because better things could have done with it when it still was at the top of the chain; it 'degrades'. Like, instead of buying MS-licenses and the money ending up via-via-via at someone who creates wealth, they also could have created wealth immediately instead of rerouting it via MS. I think the $80 billion also buys lots of US hardware, like Dell, Intel, TI, maybe some Apple and what have you. So most of it - I believe - pretty much returns to the economy, but in a bit of a 'degraded' state, meaning it's value declines somewhere along the way. |
| Bob_Robertson Feb 18, 2011 10:16 PM EDT |
> So most of it - I believe - pretty much returns to the economy, but in a bit of a 'degraded' state, meaning it's value declines somewhere along the way. Yep, some very solid economic factors at work there doing exactly what you are talking about. I'm not sure, are discussing "opportunity costs" a TOS violation? Likely. :^) What would people do if they weren't paying for Windows? Buying better hardware, going out to dinner, contributing code to nice F/OSS projects? |
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