Re: Tax writeoff for Open Source Developers?

[Steve Cohen <stevecoh@mcs.com>]

Well, not exactly.  It's only the opinion of one man.  It proves nothing
about the motivations of anyone else.

Brett Glass wrote:

> 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.
> >