Re: Tax writeoff for Open Source Developers?

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

It also puts the lie to the claim (made by Richard Stallman,
Eric Raymond, and others) that software authors are not motivated
by monetary rewards. 

--Brett

At 09:28 AM 12/19/98 -0500, Steve Cohen wrote:
 
>http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/log/1998/12/15log.html
>
>has an article about a proposal to allow a tax deduction for Open Source
>Contributions.
>
>Methinks 1) He'd better call it something other than "hacker tax credit"
>or it's going nowhere.
>2) It'd be too open to abuse.  Any moron could write some piece of crap,
>get 1000 people to download it by false hype, and then petition to get
>his whole computer system written off as a deduction.
>It might be a good idea but it needs work.
>