>> About month ago one of the local fiscal office in Poland has laid >> a tax on some company in Poland which uses Linux servers and >> StarOffice apllications. This information appeared in the past week >> in Polish edition of Computerworld. AND THIS IS NOT A JOKE. >> >> The fiscal office has treated GNU software as a DONATION for this >> company with a price on the level of M$ Windows NT and M$ Office >> prices. According to the Polish tax regulations this company must >> pay about 30% (thirty percents) of these values now. So much. > >This is bothersome enough, but why Windos? Solaris seems much >more similar to Debian than this glamourised game console OS.
Thanks for this question. I forgot to add some "explaination" from the fiscal office. These guys said they choose Windos for a price comparison because "it's a leading software in Polish market". Cheers, Mariusz Przygodzki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
