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Swiss Tax Office distributes Mozilla and OpenOffice

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the taxman-downloadeth dept.

David Gerard writes "From Heise (via Mozillazine: taxpayers in the Swiss canton of Geneva are being given a CD with a French version of Mozilla 1.2.1, OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 and tax program GEtax 2002. Rough English translation from Google." This strikes me as a really cool idea. I already get the cards that tell me to file online rather than fill out paper forms, but it still forces me to buy tax software every year.

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  1. And in the U.S. of A. by ArkiMage · · Score: 3, Funny

    The US Post Office schills for Microsoft...

  2. Not quite on topic, but... by Akardam · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... CowboyNeal is posting... ... is this right? I thought he was only a mythical figure featured prominently in Slashdot polls since the beginning of Slashtime?

    Mommy, I'm scared...

    1. Re:Not quite on topic, but... by Apiakun · · Score: 5, Funny

      Notice also that this isn't a duplicate story, and that there are no spelling errors!

    2. Re:Not quite on topic, but... by Poeir · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey, you're right. Here's a more Slashdotesque version:

      Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday February 15, @09:38AM
      from the taxman-downloadeth dept.
      David Gerard writes "From Heese (via Mozillazine: taxpayers in the Swiss canton of Geneva are being given a CD with a French version of Mozilla 1.2.1, OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 and tax program GEtax 2002. Rough English translation from Google." This strikes me as a really cool idea. I already get the cerds that tell me to file online rather than fill out paper forms, but it stll forces me to buy tax software every year.

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      Sigs are like bumper stickers.
  3. headline by willll · · Score: 5, Funny

    The headline of the babelfish translation: " OpenOffice and Mozilla distributes Swiss revenue office " They forgot to say In Soviet Russia.

  4. Ah ha! by ArmenTanzarian · · Score: 3, Funny

    All you have to do is be a poor college student like myself, there are a myriad of free resources for filing for my meager return online.