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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 day ago

IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It

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IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It

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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 day ago
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The tax man won't be happy about this.

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

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    Licensed CC0. Assholes.

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      Why assholes?

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        For profit companies can take it, close source it, and make it paid software. Which is why GPL is superior.

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          But people can keep developing an open-source version, right?

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            Yeah but people can be stupid bastards. For some reason some people would rather get it from TurboTax than they would a github repo

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