here's what their sent me We do not offer a downloadable program for Linux users, but, we do offer TaxACT ONLINE which can be used by all operating systems. TaxACT ONLINE is located on our website, www.TaxACTOnline.com. What TaxACT ONLINE does is to allow anyone to complete their Federal and State tax returns totally online without having to download any actual tax program to your computer. Using TaxACT ONLINE you are able to complete both paper & electronic returns. TaxACT ONLINE should open for business on or before January 15th, 2004. Please go to our website to sign up to be notified when the site itself is actually opened & we then will notify you by email. Thank you for using TaxACT. Please let us know if you have any further questions. TaxACT Customer Service CustomerService@taxact.com CS-157 On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 12:03, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 05 January 2004 8:41 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
The bottom line is that IMHO, Linux is ready for the desktop, but is lacking some of the major applications that are only available on Windows. Developers will port their products either to run natively or through WINE (compiled natively with WINE libraries) only when they perceive that there is a large enough (potential) market for their products.
Perhaps the WINE people will eventually be ambitious enough to make up a list of critical apps (including at least one popular Windows tax program, clearly) and get those to run. If Wine could run, say, TurboTax and QuickBooks, Linux on the desktop would be a more feasible alternative for a lot of folks.
Paul Abrahams
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