How about these for new liability guidelines: if the vendor knowingly ships buggy software, the customer is entitled to a 100% refund on the license cost.
Forget 100%. As a competitive advantage, FOSS projects could offer triple the license cost as a refund.
What about the monopoly Xcel has to distribute electricity. That's one hell of a subsidy. Oh, what about the free right of ways across the solar panel owner's property.
Maybe the home owners should be permitted to charge for allowing a utility pole on their lawn.
The hot dog vendor only collects tax, and more importantly has the expense of filing in only one location.
The small internet vendor could potentially be held liable to collect, file, and understand the tax laws of thousands of taxing jurisdictions.
It's more than just the states. Could Madison attempt to enforce a download tax? What about the
Dane County High School Football Stadium levy?
Historically, out-of-state businesses have been protected in the US by nexus requirements. There are tens of thousands of taxing jurisdictions in the US.
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Read a Budweiser label. It's made with barley and rice. Many other American beers include "select grains" as well.
Wow - make a very gentle crack on Apple, and my karma goes from excellent to good to positive in less than an hour. I have learned my lesson.
So you mean Apple will try to get a design patent on radio buttons?
In other news ... the CIA has been renamed "The Ministry for Information Sharing."
This is a double-plus good change.
Hell, I'd be surprised if 2% of /. readers can even read resistor color codes.
BBROYGBVGW - For political correctness, I won't share the mnemonic I used 30 years ago. Now get off my lawn.
I write 15 times as much code by not bothering to fix the mistakes.
A meta-cop bit my moose
And the people who understand the ref and could have modded me 'funny' wasted their points on troll-bashing. Ironic.
That won't work - most of the feature requests would be about GreatBunzinni.
How about these for new liability guidelines: if the vendor knowingly ships buggy software, the customer is entitled to a 100% refund on the license cost.
Forget 100%. As a competitive advantage, FOSS projects could offer triple the license cost as a refund.
What about the monopoly Xcel has to distribute electricity. That's one hell of a subsidy. Oh, what about the free right of ways across the solar panel owner's property. Maybe the home owners should be permitted to charge for allowing a utility pole on their lawn.
Your argument leaves me non=ed
The hot dog vendor only collects tax, and more importantly has the expense of filing in only one location. The small internet vendor could potentially be held liable to collect, file, and understand the tax laws of thousands of taxing jurisdictions. It's more than just the states. Could Madison attempt to enforce a download tax? What about the Dane County High School Football Stadium levy? Historically, out-of-state businesses have been protected in the US by nexus requirements. There are tens of thousands of taxing jurisdictions in the US.