UK specific: MTD - Making Tax Digital

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Apr 17 11:39:02 EDT 2017


On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 04:00:20PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:

> Apparently they have effectively locked out open source software as there is
> a per application (i.e. there would be one just for GnuCash) "secret"
> that is used during the OAuth2 login.  Keeping that value secret is not
> possible in open source (closed source just hard code it into their code)
> so effectively open source can not be used.

Do you have a reference for that ?

With all of the fuss that the UK gov't is making about open source it would be
interesting to see them justify that.

How long before someone extracts/dumps-to-the-web the secret for a few popular
applications like Sage ? Mind you: sage would love it - once the secret is
invalidated they get to charge everyone who has bought a copy for the new
version.

How about a shim for a small binary executable - does its bit and gets out of
the way ? I know that it is not ideal, but might be a pragmatic solution.

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