Give open source a (tax) break
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Describes using a French endowment fund (Fonds de Dotation du Libre, FDL) that lets corporations and individuals donate to open source projects and receive large tax deductions (up to 60–65%). Gives concrete examples of FDL-funded work: Jexcel v4 (open-source spreadsheet), an open-hardware 4G/5G base station (PCB/BOM release), the HyperOpen “open service” initiative for cloud services, an open-data directory of European OSS publishers, and legal support for the Health Data Hub litigation. Explains that FDL operates under strict French accounting/auditing rules, uses an open-source ERP, shares costs across projects, and is overseen by a scientific advisory board to ensure legal and technical governance.
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