On 3 January 2011 15:56, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Le 03/01/11 12:37, Zaphod Feeblejocks a écrit : > > > > > I guess if you want to buy an iPad in France, now is a good time to do > it! > > > > An iPad or any other mobile OS based device, ipad is hardly an OS based device. Well stretching the imagination we can trace the OS back to BSD but that could be said of other proprietary unix OSs. > including your telephone > :-) (the tax, if finally passed into law, should also affect > WindowsMobile phones) - the project targets embedded OSes not designed > to run on "normal" PC hardware. Obviously, the definition retained at > present is a nonsense in itself and shows just what a poor understanding > French MPs have of operating systems and IT in general (or rather what > they have been cleverly misled to understand). > > The current French government needs money, big time - the > mobile/embedded market is still fairly bouyant - what better way to > generate a revenue stream to fill the depleted coffers ? ;-) > I can think of several better ways. Raise the tax rate on proprietary software to encourage migration to open source. Overall that would save money as well as raise revenue. ;-) Once you have everyone shifted to FOSS you can tax that and effectively transfer the tax that was being paid to proprietary software producers to the government. That then costs no-one except the likes of MS who have plenty of cash and are largely outside the French economy in any case. > Alex > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org<discuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org> > Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications The Schools ITQ www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- 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 ***
