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New York senator proposes tax credit for open-source developers

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Re: Stupid idea

> The problem is, who decided if a contribution is valid and what it's worth, if anything?

Nobody can. Whether software is useful or not is entirely dependent on your point of view.

I certainly wouldn't want anybody to base a credit on such criteria anyway.

For every successful software project, many others have failed and gone by the wayside.

I would award this credit for time spent on any software credit that was made available under a permissive license and publicly accessible.

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