alt Hacker NewsYeah, I don't really want to subsidize people to work on open-source shitcoins for example. The devil is in the details here.
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ffsm8 • today at 11:56 AM
Subsidize?
What? How are you subsidizing anything when it's just recognized as volunteering?
You can at most put that on your Einkommensteuererklärung for a deduction on taxes...
Calling that's subsidizing, idk man, feels massively overblown?
And the Steueramt would have to agree with your statement, which I doubt it would for 99.9% of software.
The exploit-ability of this seems severely overstated here, but I'm not a lawyer so maybe y'all know something I dont
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I think that the problem is that "open source" in itself is not volunteering.
Just like "masonry" is not volunteering, even though a mason could volunteer by building an orphanage pro bono. But when they build their own house, it's not volunteering.
I don't even think that being paid for building an orphanage counts as volunteering... does it?