[Sussex] File sharing legal in Canada!

[Steve Williams]

Chaps,

Sadly given this Chancellor's penchant for extracting tax I wouldn't put it 
past him. For the same reason I wouldn't joke about a breathing tax or a 
farting tax within his hearing because I have a horrible suspicion it would 
become reality.

However, I can't see on what grounds it could be levied - on sales? Well I've 
recently downloaded Gentoo and it cost nowt - no tax to be paid there. On 
income made by developers - when they release it for free?

All this will do is discourage Open Source development in this country, and 
that would be a bad thing in my view.

It just shows that the government's thinking has been left behind by the new 
international community called the Internet.

Anyone voting Tory next time then?

Steve Williams.



On Friday 02 April 2004 12:48, Geoff Teale wrote:
> This has been coming for a whileso AFAIK it was not an April fool.  A
> more worrying April 1st story on slashdot linked to this site:
>
> http://www.lose-it.org.uk/
>
> .. which I haven't actually been able to confirm as an April fool yet. :
> (
>
> ..I really hope it is.