> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:58:09AM GMT, Ronald Odle [ronodle@kiva.net] said the following:
>
>> As I usually fire up XP about once a year to run TurboTax, I'll pick up
>> a headset and give Skype on Linux a try first. I'll also be having a
>> look at Ekiga as well.
>>
>
> Just for fun I checked out if TurboTax runs in Wine, I guess not as it
> has a garbage rating because the installer crashes. Apparently the
> software has some DRM in it that puts some signature on the hard drive's
> starting sectors. BAD! BAD! BAD!
>
> What I don't get is, if everyone needs to do their taxes, and there
> are 30 million Linux users (maybe 1 million+ U.S. desktop users),
> wouldn't that be a significant enough market to make a Linux version?
>
> I guess TaxAct is an alternative that works in wine to some degree.
>
I have a Windows guest in VirtualBox for things like TurboTax. I've
heard that turbotax.com will work for Linux users with Firefox, but I
just don't feel comfortable doing my taxes via website yet.
-Barry
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