memes

i think about this a lot.

1.) tragically, the excel equivalents are not 1-to-1 when it comes to some spreadsheet calculations. like you could probably rebuild them, but they don't always import cleanly. i am certain microsoft purposely kludges their file compatibility shit together so that open source standards don't work correctly. they've been caught doing this with HTML & CSS, so i am sure they're doing it purposely internally.

2.) i think microsoft's enterprise & institutional sales kickback system is probably in the top 3, all time, everyday is the fucking superbowl, lock 'em in and get the ink down. this is speculation on my end, but having seen their absolute sweetheart licensing system for large universities' students & staff, the corporate and government sales side has got to be just as marquee, S-tier as that, if not more so. i have no doubt the kickbacks are brilliantly structured so as to be invisible to anyone except the decision making teams.

i think every government agency / organization / state government should have to publicly declare their software licensing fees every year. it is absolutely criminal how much public cash is being funneled to prolong this counter productive dependency and prop up this single repository of proprietary, shit-tier code.