>>>>> "Tarun" == Tarun Dua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The proposal actually has two facets: Excise or tax as a
>> disincentive for deploying and/or bundling proprietary
>> commodity off-the-shelf software (COTS) and as a way of
>> generating revenue for promoting FLOSS.
Tarun> How does one implement Excise/tax on COTS without hurting
Tarun> FLOSS ? If both these do get taxed (more likely due to
Tarun> reasons similar to ones explained in my previous mails)
Tarun> then how does that level the playing field for FLOSS?
Isn't that self-evident? If you have (say) an 8% excise on bundled
software, then the person who downloads Linux and OpenOffice and
bundles them into a computer doesn't pay any excise. After all, the
tax/excise would be on the price of the software, and if the price is
0, so is the corresponding tax.
As far as I can make out the proposal is not asking for preferential
taxation, just a straight across-the-board tax on bundled software
based on the cost of the software to the consumer.
Regards,
-- Raju
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Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
It is the mind that moves
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