TurboTax - Linux?

[David Curry]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 06:53, Mark Weaver wrote:
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>>Scot L. Harris wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:37, Mark Weaver wrote:
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>>>>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?
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>>>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).
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>>>Pointy haired boss decisions that are bad for their company and
>>>consumers alike.
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>>I thought all that had been re-thought though and done away with with 
>>last years release?
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>I think they have re-thought the copy protection they tried last year. 
>However the browser issue came up this year.  There was an earlier
>thread end of last month or first week of this month discussing the
>browser problem.  Personally I don't like the browser tax option much
>and would not use it even if it did work with firefox.  
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>These kinds of decisions have alienated a number of people.  Last year
>many moved to taxcut software and probably won't be back.  Bad customer
>feelings last much longer than the reverse.  Once lost it is extremely
>hard to regain customers over something this silly.  
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>Look at this thread.  Based on several users experience many many people
>reading this will most likely choose NOT to use turbotax and will seek
>out alternatives.
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For a convenient list of alternatives to TurboTax,  visit 
http://www.irs.gov and follow the links for "Free File".

You will eventually come to a page listing 18 computerized tax services 
that the IRS recognizes as producing acceptable digital tax returns - 
TurboTax, TaxCut, and 16 others.