[hkt]

I've always liked the idea of getting companies to sign up to second staff members for a month or two to full or part time open source work. They could get a nice friendly looking "open source supporter" badge for it, like the Fair Tax Mark. It'd take a small organisation being clever to do it but I think it'd work and free up lots and lots of hours of work to be done on valuable stuff.

[kodah]

If it were tax donation incentives I bet people/companies would do it.

[hkt]

Of course they would.

But given the beneficiaries of open source software it would be hard to construe as charity, really. Just a bung to tech companies.