In a message dated 8/28/2006 2:43:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>If you are a contract programmer in the state of Ohio, you must charge >sales tax any time the work you do involves the installation or >modification of the operating system! >Ok, so I asked the state to define the O/S in the area of mainframes >(specifically). They agreed that it was very complicated and so told me >that it was any component that exercised control over hardware. And >finally they said that I was the expert so I should make the decision as >to when something was sales taxable! We must also ask these idiotic, confiscation-crazed bureaurats their official definition of "control" and "hardware." E.g., when my LA R1,5 instruction executes, I am in some sense "controlling" General Purpose Register 1, which is part of the "hardware." Surely they did not mean at that low a level. I am certainly glad they left such a mega-loophole for us. If I were to write a channel program to read or write on one DASD, I believe my working definition of "hardware" would encompass at least the entire control unit. If in doubt, remember the maxim "You show me the law, and I'll show you the loophole." Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
