FSFLA frees Brazilian tax software

  2007-05-15 10:30:05
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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