TurboTax - Linux?
Paul
subsolar at subsolar.org
Tue Feb 15 03:43:21 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
> David Curry wrote:
> > STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
> >
> >>> Of course. And Turbo Tax for the Web (and all of the other companies)
> >>> also
> >>> use https. I guess the question is: a secure protocol _to what_?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
> >>
> >> Back to the original quesiton, have people tried running
> >> Turbo Tax under wine? I was going to try it out just for
> >> grins, but have not gotten to it yet.
> >>
> >> Robert Styma
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > A week or so ago while researching the possibility of using Wine to run
> > TurboTax in FC2 I ran across a couple of messages reporting that this
> > year or last TurboTax software started making changes to the masterboot
> > record when run in Wine. As a relative linux neophyte, that was enough
> > of a cautionary note to dissuade me from trying it. I also did not find
> > any clear declaration that people were actually succeeding in running
> > TurboTax under Wine.
> >
>
> why in the world would the TurboTax app be making any sort of writes,
> let along changes of any kind to the disk's MBR?
Two words: Copy Protection
The copy protection they started using, from macrovision I believe,
wrote information to the MBR the first time it was installed and would
only let you re-install it later if it found the signature. So a year
later if you tried to install to reprint your forms after upgrading your
hard drive you were out of luck.
Thats why I switched to TaxCut ... no copy protection at all.
Paul
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