A trip to LinuxWorld San Francisco 2003

A trip to LinuxWorld San Francisco 2003

>> A single person from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service
>> had free (as in beer) CDs with tax preparation software
>> for Windows and Mac.

> This one sailed over my head. Why is the IRS paying somebody
> to go to a Linuxworld convention and hand out tax prep
> software for Windows and Mac?? Did they claim some sort of
> a Linux connection?

That one (as well as the Dell 30% thing) caused me to abruptly pause and go
back and mentally re-parse looking for the error I /must/ have made as well.
One would have thought the article author would have at LEAST answered the
implied question of whether it ran on WINE or not (or that they said they didn't
know, if that was the case, and she hadn't taken one to try on it b4 writing the
article). Knowing whether the IRS spokeperson could directly answer that
question would have said a lot about Linux and the guv-folk's attitude toward it on
its own. As it was, it made a bit of a statement about how far we (still) have to
go, but knowing whether they knew whether it would run on WINE or not -->
when distributing it at a *Linux* convention, even if it wasn't Linux software, would
have made a better statement, one way or the other. At least then, we'd know if
the message was having /any/ effect on the IRS, other than them just sending a
guy there with no product specifically for it.

Duncan