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From: JosephKK on 4 Feb 2010 23:27 On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:57:29 -0800, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >"JeffM" <jeffm_(a)email.com> wrote in message >news:d52e2c68-7fd0-49b3-a7a4-cd74feff0805(a)h12g2000vbd.googlegroups.com.... >> Not "something like"--unless you enjoy being abused >> by yet another damned corporation: > >Yikes! > >This is what happens when you have a product that's already pretty mature -- >there are already so many features that adding more probably won't grow your >sales much, so instead you decide that surely lots of people must be pirating >your software, so perhaps sales would grow if you could eliminate some of >that? > >Personally I rather think it ought to be the U.S. government providing tax >preparation software anyway... Yikes! You clearly have a serious lack of understanding about conflict of interest here. That would be equivalent to letting warlords (or organized crime) write and enforce the laws. Not that we are all that far from that already.
From: MooseFET on 5 Feb 2010 09:36 On Feb 4, 7:53 pm, "JosephKK"<quiettechb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:42:41 -0800, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgro...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >"Fred Abse" <excretatau...(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message > >news:pan.2010.02.03.09.37.55.62490(a)invalid.invalid... > >> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:36:34 -0800, m...(a)sushi.com wrote: > >>> I like linux, but you just can't inflict it on the general public > >>> unless all they are going to do is run a browser, email, office, etc. > >> Isn't that all they do? > > >A lot of them, yes. > > >These days you also need to get something like TurboTax ported to Linux.... This brings to mind a story: My mother has a friend who does her taxes completely wrong every year. She is a nice little old grandmother but she simply can't add, subtract or even put the right numbers into the right boxes correctly. Every year, the government sends perhaps a dozen corrections. One year someone asked her why she doesn't get someone to do them for her. She responded with "They want money to do it".
From: Joel Koltner on 5 Feb 2010 12:10 "Mycelium" <mycelium(a)thematrixattheendofthemushroomstem.org> wrote in message news:q0vmm5hhqbl3pa9dcn0cqr7v6pdi0pscrh(a)4ax.com... > Run it in an emu-window. duh. It is not like it is some advanced, > memory intensive app or something. Yeah, but how are you going to do that without buying a Windows license, which was one of the goals (otherwise, for those "generic" web browsing/word processing/etc. needs, you might as well just run Windows in the first place)? It sure doesn't work under WINE: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=623 ---Joel
From: Archimedes' Lever on 5 Feb 2010 23:04
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:10:25 -0800, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >"Mycelium" <mycelium(a)thematrixattheendofthemushroomstem.org> wrote in message >news:q0vmm5hhqbl3pa9dcn0cqr7v6pdi0pscrh(a)4ax.com... >> Run it in an emu-window. duh. It is not like it is some advanced, >> memory intensive app or something. > >Yeah, but how are you going to do that without buying a Windows license, which >was one of the goals (otherwise, for those "generic" web browsing/word >processing/etc. needs, you might as well just run Windows in the first place)? > >It sure doesn't work under WINE: >http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=623 > >---Joel Well, maybe you or that person was unable to get it to work. You do know that wine has not been the best emu for a MS Windows session for a very long time, right? And no, you do not have to buy a Windows license. All you have to do is be the owner of a valid copy of the version of Windows you intend to run it under. That should not be a problem. You could also petition TT to write a Linux version of the EZ file app. OR you could probably easily do it in Excel. It will pipe the data over to the Federal PDF file for you too. |