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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced (www.404media.co)
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[–] 110 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Dunno, sounds like some fucking commie shit to be. And not the kind i can someyimes get on board with when it comes time to do secret police shebanigans, but the bad scary kind where they dont even have a use for police.

Wouldn't it be better to just give the code for free to a good corporate citizen who can be entrusted with its stewardship?

Edit: yes of course we rent it back!

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    only if the corporate citizen promises really hard we can trust them. like a super promise.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also we have to pay them whenever we want to use the code. Yes.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    you bought it, why shouldn't you also rent it?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Exactly! Twice the value for my tax dollar!

    Not that I've ever paid taxes, but, you know, if my accounting department all suddenly died in mid march some year, and i wasnt operated out of a PO box in a tax shelter, i bet i mightve had to.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    All of the sweet, sweet gross domestic product statistics. Mmm I love GDPness.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    All that gdpness hot and throbbing in my mouth as i wrap my accounting department around it, and extract everything i can. I'll be methodical, ruthless, and messy, as i extract every last bit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We need better than that. We need a pinky promise.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's impractical, because for a pinky promise, you need to actually lock pinkies. We need a surrogate, like maybe the Commander in Chief?

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Bro why are people downvoting this when it is so clearly a joke

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    /s dude, this is the Internet and you are not a person with a widely known stance.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The candle that burns half as bright burns twice as long, and you, my child, will burn so very long.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sick "burn", but still a bit uncalled for, don't you think?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wouldn’t it be better to just give the code for free to a good corporate citizen who can be entrusted with its stewardship?

    To be fair, since it's public domain, anyone can take it, modify it (and not release modifications), and try to screw you over w/ it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No but im saying it shouldn't be public, it should be given to a good corporate citizen to maintain so we can rent it back when we need it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, public domain gets you halfway there. You can still rent it later, provided the original is user-unfriendly enough that you'd be interested in alternatives.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Okay but 'public domain' is communist, and everyone within 20 miles of it should be killed

    But its not physical so there is no precise location for it, and the only way to sidestep this existential problem is by not having a public domain, so maybe my headache goes away.

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