TurboTax - Linux?

David Curry dsccable at comcast.net
Tue Feb 15 02:32:21 UTC 2005


Rich Stanford wrote:

>On Monday 14 February 2005 11:38 am, 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
>>    
>>
>
>To answer Robert, I just finished doing my taxes with Turbo Tax and I was 
>running under wine (wine-20050111-1fc3winehq.i686.rpm) on Fedore 3.  
>
>Now, before I attempted it, I installed winetools 
>(http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools).  Follow the installation 
>instructions for this little jewel completely, and it will insure that you 
>have most of everything you need.
>
>When that is completed, insert your CD and run the setup.exe.  It runs quite 
>well (I wouldn't consider it 100%, sometimes help windows appear and won't go 
>away or get out of the way, but you soon learn to work around it).
>
>I think that the Wine development guys ought to all have a toast, along with 
>Frank Hendriksen and Joachim von Thadden.
>
>Rich
>
>  
>
Thank you, Rich.  Your message was the first time I have seen any say 
explicitly that they have been able to get TurboTax to run in Wine.

Thanks also to those thread contributors reporting that Intuit had 
backed off of their copyright protection scheme.




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