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Well, not exactly. As far as I know, Netscape Communications aren't guilty of tax evasion, and their browser is legitimately distributed.
I can't think of an apt modern comparison. Maybe something to do with tax breaks to media companies to fight pirated media content or something. Or maybe the resistance to a tax on media storage that intends to compensate for copying of copyrighted material.
I really don't think there is a modern equivalent, because it would mean poignant anger somewhere, and I don't think we see that.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 04-04-2011 at 08:24 AM..
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