On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 06:18, Andrey Andreev wrote: > Timothy Payne wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 23:04, me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > [snip] > > Excuse me, but why are we helping this guy cheat on his taxes? Sorry > > but I haven't finished my first cup of coffee yet. > > From what I've read in the thread, it seems that this guy wants to > exploit a loophole in a law, created to subsidise sales of MS Windows > with taxpayer money. The law seems to assume all OSes are commercial, > i.e Windows in general, and pays back a part of the price for the > license. I find this disgusting. As far as OP can keep his actions > legal, I don't find him getting some money from the state any more > ethically disturbing, than MS getting them. It's a stupid law, that's all. > > //Andro > > PS: Either way, I don't feel an urge to help with any such scheme, and I > won't. It's just that I don't mind. > > -- > Andrey Andreev > University of Helsinki > Dept. of Computer Science Well, reread it. Most likely his government wanted to help people buy expensive software, too bad they don't know about Open Source. He just wants to cheat on his taxes.
