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Intuit Sued Over Product Activation
An anonymous reader writes "PCWorld is reporting: [Scott] Leviant's firm of Stanbury & Fishelman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Intuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of all U.S. purchasers of TurboTax software for the 2002 tax year. The suit alleges that Intuit engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices by failing to fully disclose the mechanisms and consequences of its product-activation technology before consumers pay for the software."
and this is a surprise. I thought everyone in california sued everyone else. Part of the hollywood suspense.
cheers
In protest, I will evade my taxes this year.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
The good, Intuit gets punished for being stupid.
The bad, the Lawyers are going to win either way.
The ugly... the picture of Scott Gulbransen(an intuit spokesweasel) in the red thong bikini...
Yuck.
Black and grey are both shades of white.
And they are not stupid, they are just unable to recieve a good education because they're discriminated by the fascist Canadian government...
We're supposed to PAY for that software? CRAP.
Um, this kinds of logic just doesn't apply to software. Unless you live in the ST:TNG universe, you can't replicate your car so that more than one person can drive it at a time.
Trolls lurk everywhere. Mod them down.
Why in the world would you need tax software in Canada? Should be pretty simple up there... just hand over every dollar you make to the govt. God bless socialism! :)
Jeff
Well, yes, you can deduct the cost of the software from your income.
What do you mean you "don't have a congressman"? Just pick one out! We got 20 million mexicans who can vote, get a drivers license, get free medical care, bring over their entire familes, open bank accounts and now even get social security-all of whom are not "legal" immigrants. No idea how many legal, that is OK as far as I am concerned, but the other 20 million do exist, and what I said is true, they do all that stuff and no one says boo to them--so-- don't let being a canadian get in your way, the US is wide open! Have fun! Pick "your" congress weasel out and let him have it with your opinion!
%^)
Although it was itself planning to use product activation next year, Block is now making anti-product activation the centerpiece of its marketing campaign for the remainder of the tax season
I love it...
~SL
Bending over backward for Intuit does seem appropariate, given how much they've had their customers bending over forward.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I'm suprised that deleting and uninstalling random things didn't work out for you.
Someone hand Intuit the K-Y Jelly and set up the webcam, its time to watch these guys get the screwing they so rightly deserve. My stepdad uses Turbotax on his aged PC, and when it crashed, and crashed hard, during the middle of the process, he ran into this problem. He tried to get everything straightened out, and when they told him of the fee, this man, who never cusses, used words I shall not repeat here. So he got the joy of spending six hours doing it by hand instead. I'm gonna call him and tell him about this right after this post.
Mod Points: Helping you keep your opinion to yourself.
The "Designed for Windows" criteria:
-Does it cause lots of unnecessary hassles?
-Do you have to repeatedly pay to access a feature of the product, for no reason other than vendor greed?
If your product meets either of these criteria, you may feature the "Designed for Windows" logo on its packaging.
If your product meets both of these criteria, congratulations! A representative from Microsoft will soon be contacting you to acquire all rights to this product, or to purchase your company outright.
Maybe Intuit need a product called ion, then their users would be able to make better decisions about buying their software :)
;)
(for the slow people, Intuit ion)
>People talk a lot of shit on here about the feds but at least my employer (the Marine Corps) buys only Windows 2000. Much less hassle than XP and I am thankful for it.
Didn't windows 2000 almost sink one of your ships?
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