IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It

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• JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Based IRS. So the torch will need to be carried by open source devs.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Article says it was always required to be open source and it is not an act of defiance

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    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Cooperating with the law is often percieved as an act of defiance with this administration, though.

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    • megopie@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I suspect that they’ve been pressured to keep it out of public by turbo tax lobbyists, but with the straight on attempt to kill it lately, they decided just to ignore that pressure and push it out to spite those lobbyists.

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• kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Could you please kindly tell me what IRS stands for?

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Internal Revenue Service. It’s the U.S. tax collection agency, created a bit over a century ago under, shall we say, questionable circumstances.

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    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What do you mean by questionable circumstances?

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Licensed CC0. Assholes.

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  • kureta@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why assholes?

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    • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      For profit companies can take it, close source it, and make it paid software. Which is why GPL is superior.

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    • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because it’s a gift to corporations at the expense of taxpayers.

      It means that any company can take that code, modify it (as would be required every year per IRS tax changes), and resell it without being required to publish the source code changes.

      What many European countries are doing is requiring the government to publish code under a copyleft license. That would allow companies to also benefit from this code to make their own tools (which they could also sell), and it would require them to publish the source code of their improvements.

      Basically copyleft legally ensures collaboration. Public domain does not.

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• jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Isn’t most software made by the US government required to be open source anyway?

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  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ahahahahaha this is America we’re talking about

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Actually, it’s illegal for them to make software copyleft :(

    We need to change that law :(

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    • jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s just untrue. The NSA even has a pretty cool repo.

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