Glen Turner wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:22 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Dean Hamstead wrote:
ran perfectly in wine (whatever is current).
That should not be used as an excuse for the ATO not to provide a Linux
port.
Out of interest, why is a native Linux binary better than Wine?
Especially if the ATO supported Linux via Wine?
Of course, since my taxes have paid for this, I would have
preferred that the application be free software.
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I am someone who signed up and submitted my first couple of BASs electronically,
in 2000. I had to revert to paper, as a result of the poor support for the
upgrade to the second release of e-bas software, on windows 95.
Now as linux user, all I can say is that introducing an extra layer of
complexity (wine) is a poor way to go.
Though this seems an obvious application for open source on both the windows and
linux platforms.
You need to bear in mind, that proprietary accounting package suppliers such as
SAP to MYOB are big stakeholders in the Tax office as are Accountants, who do
most annual returns if not many BAS returns.
There is also perception that license issues are a "risk" associated
with open source software.
Marghanita
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