Il 01/01/2011 18:52, Zaphod Feeblejocks ha scritto: > Did you know that anything running Linux in France is not a computer? The > outworking of > this is a skewed market in favour of MS operating systems, and therefore in > favour of MS > applications. This DOES affect LibO. > > ---- > > From: http://tinyurl.com/33ynbv7 > > "Microsoft apparently has quite a following in the French government, which > has recently > decided to tax tablets...but only those that aren´t running a Windows > operating system. > > "It has been the case for some time now that France has taxed mp3 players in > an attempt to > compensate for piracy of media, but according to French magazine Numerama, > that > existing legislation does not extend to computers. > > "As a result, the government needed a way to define what devices qualify as > computers, > which led to the decision to deem a device a computer only if it runs > Microsoft Windows. > This means that, as far as the French government is concerned, a tablet > running any other > operating system -- including Linux, Mac OS, or Android -- is just a device > used by pirates > who need to be taxed." >
incredible :-(( I hope Italy will not copy this as seem is cpiyng the hadopi three strike -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
