On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 18:45 +0100, Filip Brcic wrote: > But if the "government" uses that open-source, it would not be unfair to > collect taxes from the population. The benefit for the people would be about > 150-200 euro off the price of their computers (no ms win, no ms office, no > corel, photoshop, ...). And the country-wide taxes for such purpose would not > have to be high. For example: 10M people in Germany times 1 euro divided by > 10k programmers equals 1k euro for programmers per month. I guess that people > could afford even 10 euro in taxes and wouldn't even notice that and I > estimate that there are no more than 10k active open-source programmers in > Germany. Or, am I wrong?
What about the 50% percent of people who do not own, or want, a computer? _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
