LINUX BUSINESS

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:08:29PM +1100, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> I have been meaning to question the ATO about this for a while, as I believe 
> that much of the software is written in Java, and I think it is mostly the 
> install and configuration that is platform specific, but I could be wrong.  
> Anyway, I was planning to include the cost of VMWare as a deduction in next 
> years tax return as a result.

Well, I found it worked OK under Wine. Not great but usable. However, the
upload failed miserably due to some missing msvc library. Even my normal
windows installation didn't have the version it was looking.

In the end I just filled in a normal form. It did give me an idea how much I
was going to get back though.

> > My question is this: can anyone point me to a
> > lobby GROUP i could join in CANBERRA that will try
> > and get the govt information and others to be
> > accessable to USERS of different platforms such as
> > LINUX?

On the whole, lobby groups for IT related stuff don't seem to be
particularly common. The EFA is good but it sometimes seems hard to keep up
with the issues.

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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org>
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