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Tax Breaks for Open-Source Developers?

John Irons and Carl Malamud, at the Center for American Progress, propose a tax credit to promote open-source development:

An open source tax credit is proposed which would allow individuals who develop open source software to receive a tax credit worth 20 percent of their out-of-pocket costs. Corporations and self-employed …
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Bush hugs tree-huggers

As far as I can tell, the Republican line on sacrifice for the greater good, in the case of the Iraq war, is that there's no need for the average American to pay more taxes, burn less fuel or start victory gardens, because we have aggregated all the necessary sacrifice …

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Subversion on OS X -- Quick Reference

I'm finally getting around to checking my website project into a subversion repository. Version-control software confuses me, so I've been remiss in this essential part of project maintenance. The specific issues that stoke my procrastination: subversion didn't work on Dreamhost until very recently, I can never remember to tell it …

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