Makes me think of Richard Stallman when we apply this to software.

But, point of language: "bribe" only applies when you're inducing someone to breach their responsibilities to someone else or "the system" as a whole, such as bribing someone to make a purchasing decision with the company's money or a policeman to leave you alone. While you can induce someone to make a decision on their own account, it's no more bribery than my employer is "bribing" me to write software.