[shimman]

We can make similar arguments for the corporations: if you want to sell your software in the US market, you need to pay for a VAT for digital services that fund national endowments giving grants to individual US developers that apply to the program.

Corporations should start paying their fair share, they've scammed society enough.

[spullara]

They aren't scamming anyone by using open source software made available to them for free.

[shimman]

The are purposely ruining the commons as any corporation does to society. Companies take advantage of open source all the time without ever truly giving back, which is why we should lobby the government to compel big tech into this.

If it helps, voter sentiment against big tech is quite high and the profit margins that big tech has means there's a lot to plunder for the public.

The only question is who do you want to do the plundering?

[spullara]

this argument that companies are plundering something given away for free without taking it away from someone else is tiring.