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Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office 365 — so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Is the school providing the license? because if they're not, then it is a rough call to require and force parents to pay for a non essential tool. This is why FOSS is such a powerful education ally. It doesn't cost any of the end users any money. This kind of things is why people still think MS products as the default. MS spent a lot of money in marketing to force education to treat them as such.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

you are both correct and fatuous, which is an ideal combination

assume that in the past 25 years everyone here has heard the gospel of RMS

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But why the downvote? Just because things suck we should just lie down and take it? We can at least talk about how it sucks and we wish it were different. There's nothing silly in wanting the world to be better.

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you are, without any sense of shame, evangelizing libreoffice to someone who compiled it straight from git like 12 hours ago because they use it constantly, in a community made entirely out of techies deeply involved with open source projects

and now you’re complaining that your weak shit got a tiny number of downvotes? cause we didn’t clap like seals at the mere idea of the existence of open source software? fuck right off, thanks

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

say friend, have you heard about our lord and saviour Richard

jooooin us nooow and shaaaare the soooooftware

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you’ve fucking done it

my next movie marathon is gonna be Revolution OS, Battlefield Earth, Antitrust, and then I’m going to go into a coma

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

no no! you have so much to live for! like

(#include )

never mind, knock yourself out and rise up in vengeance

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

may my revenant embody the stuff vc nightmares are made of