[nycbug-talk] taxing free software

[bruno]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:38:53AM -0500, G. Rosamond wrote:
> 
> 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.

That is not nice indeed. Never heard of this either, it does sound a
little hard to believe, let us know if you find out more.