Carl Malamud wrote in email: “Thought this open source tax credit initiative might be of interest to you. You might remember this proposal surfacing 8 years ago under the label “hacker tax credit.” Salon wrote about it in 1998. Here’s the original proposal.
If at first you don’t succeed? :) This is getting serious attention on the hill, but some agitation from the net would help the senators and congressmen we’re talking to see that this would be a good thing politically.