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Do Companies Take Software, And Not Give?
SirDaShadow writes "The Inquirer has an excellent article that describes how companies take from the Open Source Community and how few are giving back. At the end of the article, it says it might be tax deductible. This made me think...wouldn't it be great for the OS community if we could provide a law to facilitate tax cuts to companies who give to OS, or at least make it mandatory to for-profit organizations to give a certain minimum amount and take it out of their taxes?" This piece ignores the obvious and large contributions that some companies have made in money, programmer time, code release and even just lending their name and credibility to projects like KDE and GNOME, but it does have some truth -- see for instance the Busybox Hall of Shame.
Ok, I am faced with a dilema. I have 5 moderator points, and I wrote the article on the Inq. Do I mod people up who like what I did, or mod down the people who trash me? Do I just say 'screw it' and post flames? The moderator guidelines don't help one bit in this situation, I guess they should be updated :).
Oh well, I guess this post answers my own question, kind of GNUish in it's own recursive self defeating way.
-Charlie