Vinod Kumar said on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 01:07:59PM +0530,: > Someone should try the excel spreadsheet utility with OpenOffice. It may > work this year. Last year it did not.
I tried, and it did not work. I had had asked for FLOSS alternatives on the Ilug Delhi mailing list, and was pointed to http://freedom-matters.in/, which however, is not update, and is obsolete for the current Assessment Year. > Can the Free Open community create the tax preparation software > with Open standards and Open software like Open Office Spreadsheet? > Maybe this year it is too late. But we should be ready for next > year. The taxman has probably paid for the pdf and Excel utilities > and can pay for the Open utilities as well. If anybody is willing to do the monkey work (coding), I will do the donkey's work (advising on "domain expertise"). While it is too late to do anything for current year, With some basic work done on freedom matters site, I guess it is only a question of modifying things. THis should be fairly simple, IMHO. > year. The taxman has probably paid for the pdf and Excel utilities > and can pay for the Open utilities as well. I would rather not comment on that. I am too tired fighting the govt. on FOSS implementation. Too bad. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com A closed mouth gathers no feet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
