TurboTax - Linux?
Mark Weaver
mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Thu Feb 17 11:53:12 UTC 2005
Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:37, Mark Weaver wrote:
>
>
>>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?
>
>
> Because they apparently have a short sighted view that by trying to
> implement onerous copy protection schemes they can improve their bottom
> line. When in reality they have alienated a growing portion of their
> potential user base by doing that and by making their web based service
> MS centric (they block the use of other browsers such as Mozilla).
>
> Pointy haired boss decisions that are bad for their company and
> consumers alike.
>
I thought all that had been re-thought though and done away with with
last years release?
--
Mark
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