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Article #930Re: Free Software Maintenance Bazaar (was: Publicly funded software development)
From: Jim Sokoloff
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 00:00
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john@dhh.gt.org writes: > Axel Boldt writes: > > Doesn't that mean that you'll also have to pay taxes whenever you > > download emacs? > > What is the market value of a copy of emacs? As with many tax questions: that depends largely on what you want the answer to be. :-) If you want the answer to be $0, that's clearly supportable (and is probably the most supportable answer). This is the answer that I'd feel most comfortable defending in Tax Court. :-) If you want the answer to be something higher, come up with a way to justify it. Certainly the FMV of any of various media that contain emacs (even including the GNU tapes that FSF sells) would probably be held to be reasonable. ---Jim
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: fa692,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa692,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: "Jim Sokoloff" <sokoloff@tiac.net> Subject: Re: Free Software Maintenance Bazaar (was: Publicly funded software development) Date: 1998/11/19 Message-ID: <m1n1zmzaced.fsf@fardm2.boston.deshaw.com> X-Deja-AN: 413548063 References: <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <729n4t$jbe$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <72b6c0$16v$8@blue.hex.net> <xzqlnlc9tgn.fsf_-_@uni-paderborn.de> <72qlmn$n0o$6@blue.hex.net> <Pine.LNX.3.96.981117090737.21281H-100000@welpc040.domgen.com> <xzqiuge9jzp.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> <72tadd$lp$12@blue.hex.net> <87btm5zhmu.fsf@hasler.dhh> Organization: D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., but I speak only for myself. Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.society.futures,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss