Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation

Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by OJFord on Saturday February 13, 2021 @05:16AM (#26122679)

They have a duty to try to operate efficiently, but that doesn't make corporate social responsibility, a bad hire, or wasting something nobody liked in the canteen illegal.

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Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by andi999 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @05:43AM (#26122788)

Well, bad hire, bad food can always be justified (avoiding hindsight fallacy). But giving away money for nothing received (meaning of donation) is something different (at least to me)

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Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by keeganpoppen on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:38AM (#26123001)

companies donate money to stuff all the time what are you on about?

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Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by andi999 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:54AM (#26123090)

So I read up a little. To tax deduct the nonprofit must have registered as 501(c)(3). Is this the case here?

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Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by sokoloff on Saturday February 13, 2021 @07:40AM (#26123270)

I can pay you to put my company name on your business website or a physical banner at a trade show and account for this as a business expense (deduct it) without you being a non-profit. I have broad latitude to make business expenditures in a manner that I believe is profit-seeking or optimizing for my business.

People do this with Google and Facebook all the time. We call them ads. Not every ad campaign has a positive RoI.

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