TurboTax - Linux?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Feb 15 04:51:47 UTC 2005


On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:43:21PM -0600, Paul wrote:
> 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.

Same on Intuit, now. They actually listened to people, which maybe ought to
count for *something*. :)

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