Re: Stupid idea
"I would award this credit for time spent on any software credit that was made available under a permissive license and publicly accessible."
10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10
License: BSD Standard
Profit!!!!
Sorry, just being a bit factitious here, but the point is someone has to draw a line somewhere if tax credits are to be offered against writing open source code. Must it be a formal project? Which projects qualify? Maybe it's an "established" coder working on his own, what's his/her track record? What about those who can't code but help manage the projects or spend time creating and/updating the documentation?
The idea might be nice, but I can't see how it can be administered in a fair way.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
