Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: (Fwd) The French Gov. loves Microsoft

Medellin, enero 3 de 2011

Just look this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/28/rumored_ubuntu_tablet/
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2011/1/3 Ian Lynch <ianrlynch@gmail.com>

> On 3 January 2011 15:56, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le 03/01/11 12:37, Zaphod Feeblejocks a écrit :
> >
> > > I guess if you want to buy an iPad in France, now is a good time to do
> > it!
> > >
> >
> > An iPad or any other mobile OS based device,
>
>
> ipad is hardly an OS based device. Well stretching the imagination we can
> trace the OS back to BSD but that could be said of other proprietary unix
> OSs.
>
>
> > including your telephone
> > :-) (the tax, if finally passed into law, should also affect
> > WindowsMobile phones) - the project targets embedded OSes not designed
> > to run on "normal" PC hardware. Obviously, the definition retained at
> > present is a nonsense in itself and shows just what a poor understanding
> > French MPs have of operating systems and IT in general (or rather what
> > they have been cleverly misled to understand).
> >
> > The current French government needs money, big time - the
> > mobile/embedded market is still fairly bouyant - what better way to
> > generate a revenue stream to fill the depleted coffers ? ;-)
>
> I can think of several better ways. Raise the tax rate on proprietary
> software to encourage migration to open source. Overall that would save
> money as well as raise revenue. ;-) Once you have everyone shifted to FOSS
> you can tax that and effectively transfer the tax that was being paid to
> proprietary software producers to the government. That then costs no-one
> except the likes of MS who have plenty of cash and are largely outside the
> French economy in any case.
>
>
> > Alex
> >
> >
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