Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced

• bitofarambler@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  only if the corporate citizen promise really hard we can trust them. like a super promise.

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also we have to pay them whenever we want to use the code. Yes.

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    • bitofarambler@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      you bought it, why shouldn’t you also rent it?

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Exactly! Twice the value for my tax dollar!

        Not that I’ve ever paid taxes, but, you know, if my accounting department all suddenly died in mid march some year, and i wasnt operated out of a PO box in a tax shelter, i bet i mightve had to.

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We need better than that. We need a pinky promise.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s impractical, because for a pinky promise, you need to actually lock pinkies. We need a surrogate, like maybe the Commander in Chief?

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      • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think we should ask Chuck Schumer. He’s really good at getting things done.

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• czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bro why are people downvoting this when it is so clearly a joke

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  • fiddledeedee@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    because its the internet in 2025 and we simply cannot tell anymore

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can think of two reasons and both of them are hilarious.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A lot of people are completely incapable of reading obvious sarcasm, which is too bad.

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  /s dude, this is the Internet and you are not a person with a widely known stance.

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The candle that burns half as bright burns twice as long, and you, my child, will burn so very long.

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sick “burn”, but still a bit uncalled for, don’t you think?

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Perhaps i should have said hot, but seriously; more fun to not.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A funny joke is always called for.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t it be better to just give the code for free to a good corporate citizen who can be entrusted with its stewardship?

  To be fair, since it’s public domain, anyone can take it, modify it (and not release modifications), and try to screw you over w/ it.

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No but im saying it shouldn’t be public, it should be given to a good corporate citizen to maintain so we can rent it back when we need it.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, public domain gets you halfway there. You can still rent it later, provided the original is user-unfriendly enough that you’d be interested in alternatives.

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Okay but ‘public domain’ is communist, and everyone within 20 miles of it should be killed

        But its not physical so there is no precise location for it, and the only way to sidestep this existential problem is by not having a public domain, so maybe my headache goes away.

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