hauiMA to Anti-Corporate MovementEnglish · 27 days agoGermany eyes 10% digital tax on tech giantswww.ft.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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minus-squareatro_city@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·26 days agoMake them pay 10% and then invest it in opensource. Right? … right?
minus-squareVittelius@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·26 days agoGermany already has a programe to fund open source software: The Sovereign Tech Fund Last year it was expanded to become a proper government agency. Accessibility options and better dev tooling in Gnome? Funded by the German Government Better security with SMBA network shares? Enabled by the STF. FreeBSD, OpenSteetMap and Arch Linux? All of them received money from the German Government in the last couple of years.
Make them pay 10% and then invest it in opensource. Right? … right?
Germany already has a programe to fund open source software: The Sovereign Tech Fund
Last year it was expanded to become a proper government agency.
Accessibility options and better dev tooling in Gnome? Funded by the German Government
Better security with SMBA network shares? Enabled by the STF.
FreeBSD, OpenSteetMap and Arch Linux? All of them received money from the German Government in the last couple of years.