On Friday 14 March 2003 10:20 am, Sanjeev \Ghane\ Gupta wrote:
[heavy-duty snip]
LL, please to submit a 400-word paper, distinguishing:
meaning of this sentence not clear. perhaps a grammatical mistake.
are you submitting a 400-word paper that you are writing?
do you wish to submit a 400-word
dear tarun,
thank you for taking the initiative of posting the FM's speech-to-text the
mailing list for clarifications.
thank you also for volunteering to draft a letter to the FM proposing an
unbundling mechanism which takes care of the excise component.
unfortunately, it saddens me to note
dear raj,
at last the oracle has spoken, if you excuse the borrowed phrase from the
matrix, and the IT-industry pun.
thanks raj, for your response, and for your epigrammatic statements.
i fully agree with you that the issue of quality, FLOSS, FBS, choice, and the
implicit innovations,
Dear sanjeev,
thank you at last for bringing out your stand on the issue, in response to
raj's email. you make one helluva devil's advocate
[Raj] Given that we live in an imperfect world, LinuxLingam's proposal to
introduce (re-introduce?) a tax on bundled or COTS software seems
eminently
Dear Tarun,
Good attempt.
Best regards,
Arjun
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8:49:30 PM Saturday, March 15, 2003
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Friday, March 14, 2003, 7:04:44 PM, you wrote:
TD
http://www.express-computer.com/20030317/budget1.shtml
FM-speak on IT
102. IT is Indias showpiece success story. We have to not just maintain
its
Tarun == Tarun Dua [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tarun FM-speak on IT
Tarun [snip]
Tarun Positive impact
Tarun [snip]
Tarun * Pre-loaded software exempt from excise duty.[snip]
Tarun My comments:-
Tarun 1. Earlier the Bundled software component in PC hardware
Raj Mathur wrote:
Our two resident economic and policy
experts, Ghane and Ajit have also effectively spoken out against
increase in taxation.
I am not arguing the case on the grounds that it causes an increase in
taxation, much as I like the idea. I am arguing that taxation is a
sovereign
hi suresh,
thanks for your response.
On Sunday 16 March 2003 04:36 pm, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
I agree completely.
This original open letter is such a harebrained idea for god's sake.
why! thank you! harebrained
thanks, supreet, for your response
On Monday 10 March 2003 06:11 am, you wrote:
It may not please many, but I could not agree more to what tarun has
written.
i doubt the excise will please many either. but the idea is not 'for
someone's pleasure' it is for all the causes mentioned in the
tarun dua wants to know how taxing both COTS and FLOSS help FLOSS.
simple.
1) by taxing FLOSS what they call piracy will suddenly become understood as a
'tax evasion' scheme, and hopefully the govt and the cliched 'vested
interested' will crack down heavily on what they call 'piracy.'
2)
thanks raj, for your response.
One of the biggest arguments against LinuxLingam's proposal appears to
be that any tax collected from non-FLOSS sales will not be utilised
properly.
OK, let it not be utilised properly. Let it go into the general tax
pool [snip]Whatever.
The proposal
thank you, bnv raman, for your excellent response. my inputs follow:
On Sunday 16 March 2003 04:36 pm, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: BNV Raman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SNIP]
As all software companies
enjoy the **limited** benefits provided by the government in the form of
tarun, you've done it again. another excellent response from you, quite
vitriolic, quite emphatic. i like it. my responses follow
On Sunday 16 March 2003 06:57 pm, Tarun Dua wrote:
Look what a mess GOI bureaucrats made with
regard to [heavy snip]
okay . . .
Consider the following scenarios.
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