[uberman]

Most bulk software licenses are offered in blocks not individual seats as it is impractical or for all intents impossible to manage exact per seat licenses at scale. I'm willing to bet that those quoted numbers are for "up to" counts. For a real world example, one of the clients I consult with (a large university) where everyone has access to the Adobe Suite. There is no way they track this by individual deployment. Almost no one uses Photoshop but it is part of the suite. I'm willing to bet that doge reps cherry picked photoshop to represent bulk licenses of Adobe Suite. Then did the reverse for Office 365. When asked, most people would likely say I don't use Microsoft 365 not knowing it is word and excel and conversely when asked if they used Photoshop would say no not knowing it is Acrobat Pro.

Of course, the icing on the cake is the claim that there are unused VSCode licenses. Either they have the wrong product or they fundamentally don't have a clue. In either case auditors going to press with this claim of 227 Unused Licenses for a free product makes them look like how Musk often describes people he does not like.

How much did they spend an a faulty audit to determine there were unused licenses for a free product?