France Planning Non-Windows Tablet Tax? 227
An anonymous reader writes "Lots of countries around the world have private copying 'levies,' which are effectively taxes on products that store data, which is put into a pool to be handed out to copyright holders, as a sort of payment for the 'copying' that individuals do. This was quite popular with blank CDRs, for example, but has been expanded in certain countries to cover hard drives, iPods and other such devices. Over in France, they're looking to expand the levy to tablet computers, but apparently if that tablet computer is running Microsoft Windows, it will be exempted from the tax. iPads and Android-powered tablets will have the tax. Why? Well, the argument is that if a tablet is running Windows, it's really a 'computer.' But if it's running one of those 'mobile' operating systems, suddenly it's a brand new category. Not surprisingly, makers of Android tablets — including the French company Archos — are not at all happy about this."
"Planing?" (Score:5, Funny)
Was the initial design of the tax too rough or too thick that it needed planed?
Re:"Planing?" (Score:4, Funny)
"needed planed"?
Grammar Nazi, I am disappoint.
Re:What is Apple's iPad OS? (Score:2, Funny)
Call this new category "Archos knock-offs".
Perhaps the Apple fanboys will like that approach better... '-p
Makes sense (Score:2, Funny)
From what I have heard about Windows 7 on a tablet, these people are unfortunate enough to have to run Windows on their tablet. Surely you wouldn't want to make them even more miserable by making them pay a tax on it. I am glad that French lawmakers show some compassion with the unfortunate victims.