Re: [SLUG] Etax 2007

[Rev Simon Rumble <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, jam@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Because 'works perfectly in wine' is usually a euphemism for 'didn't crash 
> within the first 100 seconds'.
> 
> Years of both cross-over and of wine has made me shun them unless absolutely 
> forced.

The point, however, is that WINE was never intended as an emulator.  
Note the expansion of the acronym.

If the ATO really must have a standalone, not web-based, application, 
they should use the WINE library to make it cross-platform.  It's LGPL, 
so if MYOB and the like need to use parts of it, that's fine too.

But we all know a decent web-based application would be a much easier 
and cheaply-supported option.  These days it's not possible to say there 
are no major applications out there that run cross-platform, using web 
standards.  Once upon a time they _might_ have had that excuse.

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>
www.rumble.net

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