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  From: Daryl Pilkington <darylp@senet.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:59:38 +1000

GST & the ATO

Greetings,
It seems to lodge your BAS with the ATO electronically & other things
you must have Win95x/NT4 & the Microsoft Java virtual machine,
(Microsoft & Java:- there's an oxymoron for you).
Banks are doing it too. I really have had enough of this sort of
rubbish.
The industry best-practice is to go for platform-independence on the
client-side.

I was talking to my new house-mate solicitor who happens to be an
E-Commerce law specialist & mentioned forcing your clients to use
brand-x
support product for your services is illegal.

I can't remember the exact term she used, but it is a recognised
anti-competitive business practice.
I'll be looking at what avenues can be used to rectify this situation,
(ATO Ombudsmen, ACCC, my local MP...)
Anyone like to offer their support/suggestions/comments?

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Regards, 

Daryl  Pilkington 

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