Just a tiny bit of software piracy... [Archive]

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Figrin D'an

Mar 14th, 2003, 12:30:35 AM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20030313/tc_nm/tech_intuit_dc

Here's the funny part of the article, though...

According to Intuit, the Internal Revenue Service said it received 15 million tax returns prepared with desktop versions of TurboTax during the 2001 tax filing season. Meanwhile, Intuit sold 5.5 million desktop copies of TurboTax.

:rolleyes

Sameer Aryan

Mar 14th, 2003, 04:08:26 PM

ROFL!!! Well maybe the copies were bought by big families (yeah right!) and like all the brothers and sisters shared the same computer! So they used the same copy for 6 people in the house... :rolleyes

Morgan Evanar

Mar 14th, 2003, 08:21:46 PM

Its possible that several accountants were using same software?