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🕑Mar 15, 2010 🖋John Locke 💬4

Is there going to be Sales Tax on Open Source software?

Today, in the Washington State legislature, the House and the Senate are reconciling their two different bills to balance the State budget. Both involve significant tax changes, and there are different ramifications for software depending on which goes through.

John Locke to speak at next BNI Tech Alliance


From the BNI Tech Alliance News:

The speaker at the Puget Sound Area BNITA for November is: John Locke Manager, Freelock Computing

The topic for November's BNITA will be: Manage your web site with Joomla, an Open Source content management system.

Many web developers have created basic content management systems to allow their customers the ability to edit their own web sites. And while many of these are very good, it's hard to compete with an open source project that has 60,000 active users.

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LinuxFest NW a Success!


We had a great time meeting people and talking about open source in small business at LinuxFest NW. Besides our own talk, we sat in on George Dyson's fascinating history about the early development of computing at Princeton University, at the hands of Von Neumann and Oppenheimer...

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