Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:12:28PM +0100, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > that's not why they taxed it - under polish law when your receive sth > that you gain money with then you pay taxes for it. > maybe lawyer should comment on this. That's okay. I'm sure the Polish government will fall into line w

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Raja R Harinath
Mariusz Przygodzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 14 November 2000 00:26, Craig Sanders wrote: > > so don't list it. just list "Debian CD$2". you don't need to > > list the free license any more than you need to list "Air$0", > > "Sunlight$0", "Birdsong.$0", or even "Traff

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Daniel Migowski
On Dienstag, 14. November 2000 00:26, Craig Sanders wrote: > so don't list it. just list "Debian CD$2". you don't need to > list the free license any more than you need to list "Air$0", > "Sunlight$0", "Birdsong.$0", or even "Traffic Noise$0". Hehe, best argument. Mig-O

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread John Galt
I thought it was hueys and Cobras...(reference: apocalypse now) On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:12:28PM +0100, Dariush Pietrzak wrote: > > that's not why they taxed it - under polish law when your receive sth > > that you gain money with then you pay ta

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Nov 13, Craig Sanders scribbled: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:45:51PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >err. debian CDs have a known market value, don't they? why not buy a > > >debian CD for $2 or whatever they cost these days? > > > > > >add in the 30% tax and that's a total of $2.60 + p

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Nov 13, Craig Sanders scribbled: > > > the cost of the license. > > I don't think it includes a cost of license. In few mails before I have > > clarified it why. > > sure it does. the monetary cost of the license is zero dollars, which is > clearly included in the price you paid for the CD

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Nov 13, Mariusz Przygodzki scribbled: > On Monday 13 November 2000 23:16, Craig Sanders wrote: > > you will have a receipt for a software CD called Debian GNU/Linux. > > that's what it cost you to buy it, including the cost of materials and > > the cost of the license. > I don't think it incl

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:57:20PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > > you will have a receipt for a software CD called Debian GNU/Linux. > > that's what it cost you to buy it, including the cost of materials > > and the cost of the license. > I'm wondering whether it could be proved that one had so

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:08:59PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Nov 13, Craig Sanders scribbled: > > sure it does. the monetary cost of the license is zero dollars, which is > > clearly included in the price you paid for the CD. > > It must be explicitly put somewhere - either in the distr

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 14 Nov 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > > > > fair enough. but you need to challenge their use of MS software > > as a reference price. you can do that in at least two ways: a) > > by establishing that gnu/linux is an entirely different type of > Won't work. For them it's a Server Software f

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 15 Nov 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:08:59PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > > > What's funny, is that when you run a shop and you play radio so that > > customers can hear it - you should pay the same fee to ZAIKS what the > > radio paid for broadcasting the songs

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:36:17PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > The *same* fee? So if you operate a broadcasting station that can > reach 10 million people, you pay the same amount as a shop that has > standing capacity for 10 people? no, i don't believe it's the exact same fee. i don't know what

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Mike Dresser
Paul Slootman wrote: > That's very similar to the Buma (http://www.buma.nl/uk/home.htm) here > in the Netherlands. They also wanted to levy a surcharge on the sale of > blank cdroms because as you can use them to duplicate audio cds, you > *will*. Very nice if e.g. you're trying to distribute deb

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Nov 14, Craig Sanders scribbled: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:08:59PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > > ** On Nov 13, Craig Sanders scribbled: > > > sure it does. the monetary cost of the license is zero dollars, which is > > > clearly included in the price you paid for the CD. > > > > It mus

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Nov 14, Paul Slootman scribbled: > On Wed 15 Nov 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:08:59PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > > > > > What's funny, is that when you run a shop and you play radio so that > > > customers can hear it - you should pay the same fee to ZAIKS w

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Nov 14, Craig Sanders scribbled: [snip] > > The *same* fee? So if you operate a broadcasting station that can > > reach 10 million people, you pay the same amount as a shop that has > > standing capacity for 10 people? > > no, i don't believe it's the exact same fee. i don't know what radio

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Andrei D. Caraman
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:44:27PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > [...] > Heh, the world isn't sane :((( It would be so nice if we could just stty -F /dev/world sane sorry, couldn't help it :) adc

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Raul Miller
On Monday 13 November 2000 23:54, Craig Sanders wrote: > > sure it does. the monetary cost of the license is zero dollars, which is > > clearly included in the price you paid for the CD. On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:20:25AM +0100, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: > And this is a problem. Zero dollars as a

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Mariusz Przygodzki
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 18:02, Raul Miller wrote: > Debian CD: $2.00, licenses included. > > Do the tax officers have a problem with this? No, if you show them a nice bit of paper (with signatures and stamps) confirmed by a commercial invoice. Mariusz -- Mariusz Przygodzki| Good j

Re: GNU/Linux taxed in Poland ?! (fwd)

2000-11-14 Thread Robert Thomson
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:14:28AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:08:59PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > > What's funny, is that when you run a shop and you play radio so that > > customers can hear it - you should pay the same fee to ZAIKS what the > > radio paid for bro

non-disclosure agreement

2000-11-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
As part of an acquisition of my present employer by another company, I have been asked to sign the enclosed agreement. I am mostly worried about paragraph 2c, which, if read literally, seems to give the company blanket rights over anything I do, _regardless_ (and this is my key point) of whether t

RE: non-disclosure agreement

2000-11-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
basically what this says is: if you write code on company time, they own it not you. They get copyright. So if you write a new program, you have to have your boss' (or someone higher) to GPL, BSD, or otherwise license it because it is NOT yours. So, if you write code for the FSF, they require yo

what about its4 license, now?

2000-11-14 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I would be interested in the results of the license-debate. long before I posted the ITP on -devel I had posted about the license to -legal. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal-0010/msg00018.html I can understand that people are not interested in reading long legal documents, that is why I am no

Re: non-disclosure agreement

2000-11-14 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 02:48:40PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I refused to sign a document like this at my current job, do not know how well > that would do for you here. It depends on the people you work for. Wow! You should have told me about that before I signed it :(. pgpUaXRM2naSS

Re: non-disclosure agreement

2000-11-14 Thread Rick Moen
begin Ian Zimmerman quotation: > 1/ Is my (literal) reading of the document essentially correct, or is > my assumption that I can read English just so much hubris? Your understanding matches mine. You are _very_ wise to be cautious about what you sign. > 2/ Will signing this agreement prevent

Re: what about its4 license, now?

2000-11-14 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:55:19AM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > I would be interested in the results of the license-debate. > > long before I posted the ITP on -devel I had posted about the license to > -legal. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal-0010/msg00018.html This doesn't satisfy DFS