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On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:35:45 -0800, "T Bennett"
<todd_bennett@polyconcepts.com> wrote:
      
>Just that question: Is qtable legal?

I am biased towards all QB add-ons. Fortunately, QB is now 
biased that way as well. By 2002 you will have many new QB 
add-ons, including payroll programs.

QB takes public domain tax tables, adds minimal programming 
and claims they produce a copyrighted tax table. I am not an 
attorney, but I understand it is fundamental copyright law that you 
cannot copyright public domain items this way.

Qtable does not provide a tax table. It simply tells QB that
the properly licensed tax table, which QB has, is current. As a
CPA I know there is no record of a government agency ever 
bothering a small business using obsolete tax tables or forms. 
There also is no damage, in that employees get credit for tax
actually withheld, not amounts what should have been withheld. 

Of course, Qtable lets you keep using the table after QB would 
like it to expire. A significant number of QB users are not happy 
with expiring tables. Intuit has not contacted Qtable's developer 
to object to it. If they tried to kill Qtable they might publicize it, 
creating more sales. They might not win on the public domain 
issue. It also would be costly, as Qtable does not do business 
in the U.S. and has had multiple web sites. Therefore, Qtable 
may or may not be legal, but it may not matter.

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