On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 04:17:01PM +0000, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Have you actually *read* the whole thread for that link ? There is some
> pretty ill informed (facutally) as well as pretty "ignorant" anti-Irish,
> prole feed, repeated verbatim (no doubt) by Florian Mueller, the self
> appointed head of nosoftwarepatents.com.
I've read it, there some inaccuracies I agree with, but the fundamentals
about the economics of it are pretty accurate. I don't agree with the
paranoid bordering-on-conspiracy parts of it - but it's pretty accurate
in its statements about the tax arrangements. There is a reason we are
such a heavy exporter.
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