It's tax time in Australia. Three weeks into the new financial year, now is about the time when people have all their documentation ready to give the government its yearly pound of flesh. But for Linux users there's no joy again.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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dave
4 years 44 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago
I'm in Nicaragua this year and
I'm in Nicaragua this year and there is no way for me to submit my tax online because I don't/won't run Windows. I've contacted the ATO about this for the last 3 years but they don't seem too concerned.
As it is, I either have to use a net cafe (assuming they'll allow me to install the ATO's etax app) - out of the question, or don't submit my tax til Dec. Thankfully they will allow this and won't fine me as long as they owe me tax and not the other way 'round.
kiba
4 years 44 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago
complicated tax are evil! Eliminate
complicated tax are evil! Eliminate income tax, property tax and all that crap!
HAVE ONE TAX! The sale tax. No damn government is going to legally steal my hard earned dollars.
Support the FairTax act! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairtax
(The next step is to reduce government spending and taxing)
Oh wait, this is not United States...
sorry..