Ouch. That bites
John
On Tuesday 21 November 2000 15:23, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> This is of concern!
>
> A snippet from the LINK mailing list:
>
> -rickw
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:06:54 +1100
> From: Fred Pilcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [LINK] Shh - don't tell Johnny
>
> [SNIP]
>
> >Funny thing about star office 7,
> >poland have introduced a tax on free software (freeware/shareware/GNU -
> >anything you dont pay for). One person got taxed on six Linux/star office
> >setups based on the valuation that they were worth just as much as 6
> >windows NT/Office setups. Apparently some people just can't win. Hope the
> >idea does not spread. Tax laws in that part of the world are a tad more
> >socialist than most places though so maybe we wont suffer the same fate
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