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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't we penalising companies for not contri... by buboard on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:46PM (#18313514)
First offenders are governments. There should be provisions for (non-security) software build by the government or publicly-owned corporations to become open source. The UK does some of that i believe.

Private corporations pay taxes, which should be enough to be their fair share. They are not obliged to otherwise contribute back to public infrastructure, even if they use it.

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