> And NOW, we have ANOTHER government asking for taxes on
> something that has traditionally, in the US at least, been
> NON taxable!? HECK, they wouldn't even have domain names if
> not for a U.S. defense project, U.S. programmers, and a guy
> in Finland!(Let's face it. Linus sped up the industry by
> perhaps 10 years by being the FIRST to provide a truely
> inexpensive and real version of unix)
Whilst I agree with about the stupidity of situation, your views of America
being the biggest and best are unneeded and a good reason why many can't
stand Americans. Pissing competitions between nations are childish at best.
For that reason we won't mention that the British invented the phone,
television and the web.
G
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