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The IRS vs. Open Source

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @04:10AM from the why-are-you-depriving-them-of-revenue? dept.

simonstl writes "The IRS wasn't after just the Tea Party, Progressives, or Medical Marijuana: Open Source Software was a regular on IRS watch lists from 2010 to 2012. Did they think it was a for-profit scam, or did they just not understand the approach?"

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Re:Open source equates to freedom. by Nadaka · 2013-06-25 05:18 · Score: 1, Flamebait

The heritage foundation places a huge focus on "economic freedom" AKA the right to exploit your serfs, any nation with a low tax rate on their high income brackets gets a lot of bonuses for "freedom".