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[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

Actually, during the era of the Commodore PET and C64 computers, Jim Butterfield (who lives in Toronto) provided tax software on an annual basis for free. I concede in advance that it was not as sophisticated as provided by the professionals, and he may well have given it up. It was written in BASIC, of course.

(This is simply to illustrate a law of nature: there is always a counterexample ;)

Peter

> And there are some areas where one doesn't expect an open-source offering
> to appear.  The classic example is tax software, which has to change every
> year, and needs concentrated expert attention on a strict schedule.
>
>                                                           Henry Spencer
>                                                        henry at spsystems.net
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