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In India, 3 major tax departments force you into proprietary software via 1. Gst department makes json data which enables third party devs to prepare stuff but
by 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
In India, 3 major tax departments force you into proprietary software via
1. Gst department makes json data which enables third party devs to prepare stuff but government utilities are in "excel" format only.
2. Income tax department had return utilities in "excel" form and also a "Java" which never worked outside of windows. Now they have made a sleek electron app and guess what, windows only.
3. MCA, companies registrar forces users to upload forms in "adobe PDF" because it has inbuilt forms and validation and such. Absolutely no way to use other than windows.
Now, there are around 50 mil taxpayers in India and if the government wanted, they can switch them to Foss products in an instant but Microsoft lobby is huge.
Not that it benefits Microsoft, I for one have never paid for a Microsoft product, thanks to keygens. Still,
- Siira 6y ago> Microsoft lobby is huge I think an incompetent gov is a much more realistic hypothesis.