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Australian citizens who use GNU/Linux in their businesses should be asking exactly that question of their tax authority. (However, I doubt that anyone will do so - apart from one person who has been asking the question for at least three years). It's a tale that runs over nearly three years. Australian businesses have to periodically submit activity statements to the Australian Taxation Office and most businesses use the online method. The tax office provides a client for its electronic commerce interface (ECI) which allows businesses to file activity statements over the internet. Clients exist only for Windows and the Apple Macintosh.
It's not quite as bad as he makes it sound. I used to work with the blokes that wrote that Windows client, it's a COM component written in VB6. And while I'd much rather have a native Linux application, it runs just fine under WINE, I have it installed on my machine.
It is too that bad. The whole premise of "windoze or nuthin!" is really irritating. It's ignorant and obnoxious. Especially when it's a lot shorter leap from a Mac to Linux/Unix client than it is from Windows to Mac, and they have a Mac client, and especially when it's a government office which is supposed to serve all constituents, not just the WindozenMac lamers. A big steaming poo on them.
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