The comment you responded to may have incorrectly assumed that all the problems were self-evident, but apparently they are not.
> redistribute the collected tax back to the community---the money will not add to Microsoft's $3.4T-worth coffers!
Ummm, yeah, no.
Microsoft is a contributor to many open source projects, so it could, in fact, directly add to its own coffers.
And, the onus to pay for what was nominally free software could make paid software look more attractive, so it could indirectly push people to, e.g., office subscriptions.
> redistribute the collected tax back to the community---the money will not add to Microsoft's $3.4T-worth coffers!
Ummm, yeah, no.
Microsoft is a contributor to many open source projects, so it could, in fact, directly add to its own coffers.
And, the onus to pay for what was nominally free software could make paid software look more attractive, so it could indirectly push people to, e.g., office subscriptions.