I feel open source donations could be seen as an expense. They are sort of paying for the development of software they presumably find useful. It's at least a s

I feel open source donations could be seen as an expense. They are sort of paying for the development of software they presumably find useful. It's at least a start on fixing the problem of the commons type issue of open source benefiting multiple companies so they all want the other one to pay for it. > Businesses are generally run to maximize profit so you could assume a deduction for charitable giving would be immediately weaponized by creating a charitable arm of the company and donating most profits to yourself, or something equally repulsive. Aren't there a bunch of groups like for example Mozilla which have both company and non-profit arms? And yes it could be abused, but is a scheme that just donates money to a charity that has the company owner for a CEO and does nothing but pay high salaries is already forbidden?