-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/1/2011 12:52 PM, Zaphod Feeblejocks wrote: > 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.
[snip] > "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." As an attorney, my suspicion is that this story has something misleading about it. What I actually suspect is that there may have been an exemption created for Windows machines because MS may already be paying some kind of licensing-related tax, and taxing Windows machines would be a double-tax. There are hundreds of examples of this in tax law throughout the world, usually related to tariffs of some sort (i.e., the domestic manufacturers of Product X have to pay a tax that foreign manufacturers don't, so a tax is created on Product X that specifically exempts the domestic manufacturers). - -- Steven Shelton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0iDIQACgkQXUonIzCvpdNpVwCeO26EZ+5/joVMlBFeZx/roK18 9KkAnjUXOmpiO0cyXtWcj+DeYrJUK62F =QDAb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 ***
