Open Source Tax Credit

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  Mike Purvis | March 18th, 2006 @ 2:20 pm | Reply

  I’m in agreement with the second commenter:

  … It’s amazing to me how Liberals think that there is NOTHING worth doing that shouldn’t be invested with governmental oversight.

  Seems like a recipe for a lot of squabbling over what exactly qualifies. (Plus a pile of subcommittees to figure it all out.)
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  Chris Meller | March 18th, 2006 @ 3:01 pm | Reply

  You mean people still pay those things…? Wow…
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  Lloyd D Budd | March 18th, 2006 @ 8:41 pm | Reply

  What a tease Matt, what is your opinion?
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  David Russell | March 19th, 2006 @ 4:18 pm | Reply

  This is a good idea – but a better one would be when the EU eventually decides to stop taking BS from Microsoft, and makes it pay this fine it’s been accumulating ($1.5million per DAY since the beginning of last year), it gives that money to the open source projects that Microsoft’s illegal tactics have harmed. That would be real ‘restorative justice’ in action.
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  Robert Accettura | March 19th, 2006 @ 5:21 pm | Reply

  Well, it’s an interesting point. I do contribute open source code… why is it if it’s corporate, there’s tax credit, but if you do it for the better good… nothing.

  IMHO there should be a “Government pays for what’s otherwise free” license… though I’m pretty sure that’s against the law in the US as I think Federal Regulations dictate they get same rates/licenses as commercial entities… so it’s either all or nothing.
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  Matt | March 20th, 2006 @ 5:31 pm | Reply

  I haven’t made up my mind yet.
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  Mark J | March 22nd, 2006 @ 2:18 am | Reply

  Tax credits are nothing else but an admission by the government that they’ve taken too much of your money… but they are designed so that you think that the government is doing you a favor. In this way, legislators get to use taxation as a weapon to crush the companies/sectors they don’t like, and as a reward for the companies/sectors who donate to their campaigns. We should kill the credits and the deductions (for everyone), and just reduce taxes (again, for everyone). But you’ll not likely see a Republican or a Democrat advocating this to any real extent… control of your money is what helps keep them in power.