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A comment on Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany. Parent comment

Re:Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunt... by ffsm8 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @06:56AM (#46884782)
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

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Re:Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunt... by account42 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @08:01AM (#46885331)
Tax breaks are very much subsidies.
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Re:Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunt... by 9875325996435 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @09:27PM (#46894879)
A thief only looting half your house is a subsidy.
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Re:Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunt... by account42 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @04:12AM (#46897533)
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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