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Re: [lp-ca-on] Netfile Application Thoughts


From: Blaise Alleyne
Subject: Re: [lp-ca-on] Netfile Application Thoughts
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 18:29:52 -0400
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On 07/07/16 05:54 PM, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>> Either way, any software we produce would have to be certified by the CRA,
>> which needs some assurances that the product that gets used to file taxes
>> is the same product that was certified. That seems to be at odds with
>> Freedoms 2 and 3, the freedom to make modifications and the freedom to
>> distribute those modifications.
> 
> Not at all. There is no "freedom to have credentials for accessing a remote
> system".
> 
> People would be free to take the source, look at it, modify it, and
> distribute that. But if they want to talk to the netfile servers, they'll
> need to get their own credentials.‎
> 

+1

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