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UK Government to Tax Linux?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The UK government is looking at introducing a tax aimed at software published under GNU GPL. It claims that because programmers do it for free, it is losing out on income tax and that commercial software companies (read Microsoft) are at a disadvantage. Some pressure group has already put up a website with more details and news site Techworld have got a quote from a Treasury spokesman saying that they're only considering it."

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  1. Looking for a date! by Klerck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:Looking for a date! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Slashdot has personals for that you know...

    2. Re:Looking for a date! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  2. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, too bad that was the THIRD POST.

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  4. I'm glad slashdot is posting this instead of... by 110010001000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...my submission on how Bill Gates claims that Linux and *BSD's are not secure in his latest email to business partners:
    Quote:

    "Since these [OSS] systems are typically created by part time non-professionals, they are subject to a wide variety of security "holes" which criminal hackers can exploit."