2009/8/26 Kelman, Tom <[email protected]>: > Has anyone pointed out in this discussion that there might be a > financial benefit to the customer to download via the internet. We > recently got all our IBM licensing changed so we could download by the > internet because then we don't have to pay sales tax as we did when > receiving tapes. That might be one argument to convince management to > allow the connection. Of course, the non-payment of sales tax probably > depends on the particular state. However, in my previous job in a > different state half way across the country, the situation was the same > - download via the internet and don't pay sales taxes.
Hmm... I still have a (paper) memo from the law department of the Fortune 500 company I worked for in 1981-1985, making this point, and recommending electronic downloading of software where possible. This was in an era when electronic downloading meant async dial-up modems at 1200 BPS and xmodem or the like, or in the case of IBM, an RSCS dial-up connection at 2400 BPS. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
