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Re: Tax writeoff for Open Source Developers?

To: Sujal Shah <sujal@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Tax writeoff for Open Source Developers?
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 14:49:03 -0700
Cc: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO <am-info@essential.org>
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At 03:13 PM 12/20/98 -0500, Sujal Shah wrote:

>Could you point out where he said that? 

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html

>Additionally, I don't believe that favoring the tax break means that
>monetary reward is a motivation.

Then why offer a tax break? 

On the other hand, perhaps "free" software which businesses cannot 
reuse due to the GPL ought to be taxed, to remediate the harm it
does to innovation and programmers' livelihoods.

--Brett

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