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FSF Urges US Government to Adopt Free-as-in-Freedom Tax Filing Software
"A modern free society has an obligation to offer electronic tax filing that respects user freedom," says a Free Software Foundation blog post, "and the United States is not excluded from this responsibility." "Governments, and/or the companies that they partner with, are responsible for providing...
""Governments, and/or the companies that they partner with, are responsible for providing free as in freedom software for necessary operations, and tax filing is no exception." Repairability: With free software, there is no uncertain wait period or reliance on a proprietary provider to make any needed bug or security fixes. "We don't have to accept this unjust reality: we can work for a better future, together," the blog post concludes (offering a "sample message" U.S. taxpayers could send to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel).
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