Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoWouldn’t it be better to just give the code for free to a good corporate citizen who can be entrusted with its stewardship?
To be fair, since it’s public domain, anyone can take it, modify it (and not release modifications), and try to screw you over w/ it.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No but im saying it shouldn’t be public, it should be given to a good corporate citizen to maintain so we can rent it back when we need it.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well, public domain gets you halfway there. You can still rent it later, provided the original is user-unfriendly enough that you’d be interested in alternatives.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Okay but ‘public domain’ is communist, and everyone within 20 miles of it should be killed
But its not physical so there is no precise location for it, and the only way to sidestep this existential problem is by not having a public domain, so maybe my headache goes away.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Hmm, maybe we could make private domain? It’s like public domain, but private.