TurboTax - Linux?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, 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?

Idiotic copy protection scheme.

BTW, this scheme was so poorly received that they abandoned it the 
following year.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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