Re: About social balances

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 18:45 +0100, Filip Brcic wrote:
> But if the "government" uses that open-source, it would not be unfair to 
> collect taxes from the population. The benefit for the people would be about 
> 150-200 euro off the price of their computers (no ms win, no ms office, no 
> corel, photoshop, ...). And the country-wide taxes for such purpose would not 
> have to be high. For example: 10M people in Germany times 1 euro divided by 
> 10k programmers equals 1k euro for programmers per month. I guess that people 
> could afford even 10 euro in taxes and wouldn't even notice that and I 
> estimate that there are no more than 10k active open-source programmers in 
> Germany. Or, am I wrong?

What about the 50% percent of people who do not own, or want, a
computer?