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    Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 15 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 Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 15 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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