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Terrible deal for the German taxpayer. Excellent deal for Amazon et. al.

• lionkor 11mo ago
  How so?
  • micromacrofoot 11mo ago
    Big corporations benefit from OSS that Germany would now paying to write... exacerbates a preexisting power imbalance with OSS, similar reason some projects have moved to AGPL
    • lionkor 11mo ago
      The government does not give money for this, that is not the point and is not how this works at all. This would simply make it easier to get compensated for open source contributions (tax-free, to a certain small number).
      • micromacrofoot 11mo ago
        reducing taxes is giving money
        • lionkor 11mo ago
          Not at the scale of Aufwandsentschaedigung (well under 1000 bucks a month before tax)
          • micromacrofoot 11mo ago
            So they're not losing any tax revenue by doing this?