[nycbug-talk] taxing free software

[G. Rosamond]

On Jan 31, 2005, at 11:55 AM, bruno wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:34:43AM -0500, G. Rosamond wrote:
>> It's done in this manner:
>>
>> the tax is 22% on software. . . So you install Sendmail or some MTA,
>> and it's free.  How does the government determine what the 22% is 
>> based
>> on?
>
> 22% of 0 is 0. :)

Right, that's what I figured, but apparently a comparable piece of 
non-free software is used to determine the tax.

g