Comment Re:tax break != free money (Score 1) 253
I am not saying that corporations should not be in any way accountable for the actions they partake, you sound as if I am recommending more corporate tax abuse.
All I was saying was that to help out any legitimate corporation, they could offload their CPU power to some gov't run, decentralized computing project that in turn would provide tax breaks or some other incentive for them to do so. This would be of course regulated to some degree based on the output of research they submit.
Reach level 1: get back this much in tax breaks.
Reach level 2: get more back...and so on.
In my opinion, this works out for the gov't sponsored projects in knowing that the grant money isnt being used on frivolous hardware that maybe obsolete in the near future, and is instead being put to work on the logic and 'business' end of the project. It is much easier to make a quick change in the software to accomodate new hardware. All the hardware requirements will be taken care of by the public in which they will be rewarded with producing a certain level of output of usuable research.
How is this a bad thing again?
All I was saying was that to help out any legitimate corporation, they could offload their CPU power to some gov't run, decentralized computing project that in turn would provide tax breaks or some other incentive for them to do so. This would be of course regulated to some degree based on the output of research they submit.
Reach level 1: get back this much in tax breaks.
Reach level 2: get more back...and so on.
In my opinion, this works out for the gov't sponsored projects in knowing that the grant money isnt being used on frivolous hardware that maybe obsolete in the near future, and is instead being put to work on the logic and 'business' end of the project. It is much easier to make a quick change in the software to accomodate new hardware. All the hardware requirements will be taken care of by the public in which they will be rewarded with producing a certain level of output of usuable research.
How is this a bad thing again?
