EU Considers Taxing SMS Messages, Email

An anonymous reader writes to mention a Reuters article about a proposed EU tax on email and phone messages. From the article: "In Italy, the concept of a tax on texting was floated in the past, as a way to help offset the country's huge deficit, although it was flatly rejected by the outgoing government. But Lamassoure argues that with billions of emails and texts sent around the world, it's a novel and simple way to raise funds from new technology. 'Exchanges between countries have ballooned, so everyone would understand that the money to finance the EU should come from the benefits engendered by the EU,' he said."

Comments

Good for Linux

[thePig]

Guess this will be good for linux (atleast for a short time)
If they are going to tax the sender - all the m/c which are hacked to send SPAMs would be first ones to get affected adversely.
This will cause the average joe to wake up to the frailities of Windows... Nothing like a bill to get a persons attention.
Thus many more people will go to more secure systems - and Linux since it currently has the name of being a secure system, would benefit.

But once many people move to Linux, the hacking would start in Linux then...
Then who knows - Minix might be king :-)