From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 18:28:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from queasy.outpost.co.nz (outpost2.inspire.net.nz [203.96.157.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB3BA37B9CA for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 18:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crh@outpost.co.nz) Received: (qmail 77660 invoked from network); 17 May 2000 01:28:34 -0000 Received: from outpost5.inspire.net.nz (HELO outpost.co.nz) (203.96.157.29) by outpost2.inspire.net.nz with SMTP; 17 May 2000 01:28:34 -0000 Message-ID: <3921F415.B6F47AF1@outpost.co.nz> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 13:21:25 +1200 From: Craig Harding Organization: Outpost Digital Media Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: <200005170116.SAA08150@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > As an example, it can take a dozen months and a significant number > of bribes before one can obtain a business license in India. > > In New York, arguable one of the most corrupt areas of the US, > the same thing takes four weeks. > > In most other areas of the US, it's 2 weeks. > > In Singapore, it's the same day. > > Corruption and bureaucracy both as up to stunting progress. What's a "business license"? My company has a certificate of incorporation, but if I was a sole trader I wouldn't need that. We have a GST#/IRD#, for the purposes of identification with the Revenue. But I don't really need one of those to start trading if I'm turning over less than NZ$30k pa, until I've got some kind of return to make to the Revenue (most likely PAYE at the end of the first month). Getting such a number here takes about 2-5 days from filling in the appropriate form and submitting it to IRD. But a "business license"? Wassat? -- C. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message