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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: The Anti-Microsoft on 2 April 2004, 00:23

Title: UK Government to Tax Linux?
Post by: The Anti-Microsoft on 2 April 2004, 00:23

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Slashdot:
The UK government is looking at introducing a tax aimed at software published under GNU GPL. It claims that because programmers do it for free, it is losing out on income tax and that commercial software companies (read Microsoft) are at a disadvantage. Some pressure group has already put up a website with more details and news site Techworld have got a quote from a Treasury spokesman saying that they're only considering it.

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The Slashdot article (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/01/1646201&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=185)

Title: UK Government to Tax Linux?
Post by: DukePuke on 2 April 2004, 01:02

hehe dunno how about you , americans, but lieing is allowed until 12am. Its evening now