Why just tech companies? Why not every industry that relies on open source software?
Quite frankly I do not see the point of crafting legislation this tailored, just fund it from general government resources and then generally tax the rich more.
The link is just a lot more direct, and easier to audit.
A car mechanic buys some software from a company, internally it uses FOSS. Now they have to support the project? They might not even know it uses FOSS internally, I never read those licence things.
Doing it via taxation is probably the easiest option, but then it runs into the problem of country X paying for support, and country Y gets to freeload.
Why just tech companies? Why not every industry that relies on open source software?
Quite frankly I do not see the point of crafting legislation this tailored, just fund it from general government resources and then generally tax the rich more.
The link is just a lot more direct, and easier to audit.
A car mechanic buys some software from a company, internally it uses FOSS. Now they have to support the project? They might not even know it uses FOSS internally, I never read those licence things.
Doing it via taxation is probably the easiest option, but then it runs into the problem of country X paying for support, and country Y gets to freeload.