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More Mayhem From MSFT's Mundie

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the as-entertaining-as-he-ever-was dept.

Cally writes "Further embarrasingly lame FUD from Craig Mundie of Microsoft. This time, he claims the GPL is at odds with 'commercialization' of software, without which the government gets a smaller tax take. Looks like he's really talking to legislators there ... He also knocks the Sun-led Liberty Alliance Passport SSO service as 'this notion that the world should be offered an alternative.' An alternative?"

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  1. Re:Microsoft is concerned about Taxes? by Bonker · · Score: 5, Informative

    And this is how they did it.

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  2. Re:Microsoft is concerned about Taxes? by Otter · · Score: 3, Informative
    In 2001, MS payed *no* income tax because they were able to deduct the value of employee stock options and 401k plans.

    Not that the assertion he's making isn't idiotic, but -- Microsoft employees paid huge amounts of income tax, the sale of their products generated huge amounts of sales tax and their business operations are huge tax base (property, licenses, etc.) The revenue generated for the government from MS far exceeds that coming from VA Linux/Software, corporate tax or no.

    My point is that "didn't pay corporate tax" is frequently presented as "contributes nothing to society", which is completely untrue.

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  3. Re:One cannot help but wonder... by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 3, Informative
    Any company that touches GPLd code with a 20 foot pole needs to ferret out the zealots in their midst

    Yeah, radical companies like IBM...

    Ferret out the zealots! Begin the inquisition! Are you now or have you ever been a user of free software?

    Jeez, guy. Relax.

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  4. Re: profits and taxes by Bobzibub · · Score: 4, Informative

    You forgot that Microsoft does not pay any federal income taxes:
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/138 52.html

    So the federal government has a choice of $30 or $0 for corporate income tax.
    Of course there are other multipliers like personal income tax paid by employees, etc...