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Chris RemingtonM to Technology@beehaw.org • 7 days 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 RemingtonM to Technology@beehaw.org • 7 days 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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    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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          Yeah. I see. Thanks for the replies.

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