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		ffsm8 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as... 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

account42 10 days ago [–]

Tax breaks are very much subsidies.

9875325996435 9 days ago | [–]

A thief only looting half your house is a subsidy.

account42 9 days ago | | [–]

If the thief keeps looting the full house of others sure. Even more so if the thief uses the loot to provide services you rely on and society as a whole has decided to give the thief the right to loot part of everyone's house.

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