Re: [Fsfe-uk] Govt considering tax on Free Software?

[David Johnson]

On Thursday 01 Apr 2004 21:43, Tom Chance wrote:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/01/1646201
>
> Apparently, the Treasury is *considering* taxing FLOSS on the basis that,
> often being given away with no charge, they're losing out on income tax.
> The AFFS really should respond to this.
>

That's not the only problem on the horizon.

It also seems that Linus is going to start charging for Linux starting from 
kernel 2.7 - $1 per CPU:

http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/03/06/139232.shtml?tid=149

Maybe "other systems" really are cheaper after all???


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David Johnson
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