TurboTax - Linux?

Paul subsolar at subsolar.org
Wed Feb 16 01:50:28 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 23:51 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:43:21PM -0600, Paul wrote:
> > The copy protection they started using, from macrovision I believe,
> > wrote information to the MBR the first time it was installed and would
> > only let you re-install it later if it found the signature.  So a year
> > later if you tried to install to reprint your forms after upgrading your
> > hard drive you were out of luck.
> > Thats why I switched to TaxCut ... no copy protection at all.
> 
> Same on Intuit, now. They actually listened to people, which maybe ought to
> count for *something*. :)

Can you hear my one hand clapping?  ;^D

Paul





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