FSFLA frees Brazilian tax software

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 15, 2007 12:20 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Bruce Byfield
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The FSFLA, the Latin American branch of the Free Software Foundation, is claiming a last-minute victory in Brazil in its struggle to remove the requirement to use non-free software for filing taxes online. Having reversed-engineered a free command-line program for filing taxes, the FSFLA is jubilantly announcing that it has "freed the lion" -- "lion" being a colloquial term in Brazil for taxes.

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