On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Adriaan van Os wrote:

Dominique Louis wrote:

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Today, the government in The Netherlands introduced a tax on free and open source software. The purpose of the tax is to "protect the local commercial software industry from unfair compettion from open source and free software projects". For details, see linux news at http://www.nedlinux.nl/modules/news/ index.php?action=showitem&id=1001.

I am really hoping that this is some kind of April Fools joke.

It is, of course.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os

<laugh/>

Of course, politicians will do lots of things if properly motivated (campaign contributions being a frequent motivator), so I couldn't be sure. In addition, since the article was in Dutch, I didn't try to read it very far.

Thanks for the joke.

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