> 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!
I didn't think anyone tried to do stuff like that anymore. Good gods!
> 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've been using web-based taxes for years now. It's been working in
Linux since ~2002 when I started doing it.
Cheers,
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