How about a tax on software that has an unfair monopoly. Theo Carr-Brion -----Original Message----- From: Adriaan van Os [mailto:gpc@microbizz.nl] Sent: 01 April 2004 14:56 To: gpc@gnu.de Subject: Open source tax 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>. Regards, Adriaan van Os