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Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on License Fee

Posted by samzenpus on from the we-do-whatever-is-cheaper dept.

MissingRainbow writes "To avoid paying taxes in India, Microsoft wanted a court to believe that it is selling its product and that there are no royalty payments involved. Their own EULA worked against them in this particular case however as it states, "the product is licensed, not sold". The court ruled against them."

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  1. dear god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    leave the slashdot gui alone!

    1. Re:dear god! by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yeah, I hear ya. WTF guys. I don't need a massive "Reply to This" button.

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    2. Re:dear god! by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Insightful

      /. can do whatever the hell they want to the look of their website.
      Just gimme an option in my settings to change it back.
      Please?

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    3. Re:dear god! by mcvos · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I like the Ajaxiness. The only real problem today is the gigantic buttons, but that should be easily fixed.

      What I'd like to know is, why do we get a completely revamped UI every week? Why not simply make the obvious improvements and stick to that?
      Every other week I discover that folding and unfolding has disappeared or reappeared in a different form. I also like the "quote parent" button, so I'd appreciate if it stopped disappearing all the time.

  2. Re:pwndbyowneula tag. by LaskoVortex · · Score: 4, Insightful

    passitontotheconsumer

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  3. A better icon by edwardpickman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe instead a Borg Bill should be portrayed as Pinocchio.

  4. Re:fyi 700 crore by stox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, in other words, less than Microsoft pays per year for power alone. I don't think this is going to make much of a dent in their budget.

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  5. HP and WalMart by symbolset · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have both been selling machines with Linux for many years. HP offers Linux on, I believe, nearly every box they sell and drivers for nearly every printer.

    Instead let's talk instead about the eee PC from ASUS, and the clones of it, and all those hot new cheap mini laptops and mobile internet devices based on Intel's Atom that won't run Vista.

    Microsoft had better pay their taxes while they still can.

    XP dies in June. Unless they extend it every last one of those boxes is going out the door with Intel's MobiLinux or a distro that supports that platform. Let's talk about BMW, where Linux comes standard with many models.

    Forget Linux on the desktop. 2008 is the year of Linux in your pocket, in your dashboard, in your cable box, on your lap and bringing the third world online without contributing too much to global warming. Desktop? What do you need a desk for any more? Next year that question may read "What's a desk?"

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  6. attention whoring or just ad revenue? by ya+really · · Score: 5, Insightful

    by newscloud (1037538) * on Thursday April 03, @12:24AM (#22948060) Homepage

    Washington State Legislators (who are greatly funded by Microsoft employees and corporate donations) have refused to close this $528 billion tax loophole [newscloud.com] ... yes Billion!

    Posting your own articles, eh? I don't exactly believe that's right. Although what for sure isn't right is not only posting your own article to your own blog, but also MISQUOTING your own article:

    "Microsoft's $528 million Washington tax break"


    Seriously, misrepresenting news in order to get people to read it? I'd expect that from Fox or CBS, but posting this rubbish on slashdot, that's just pathetic.
  7. Re:Safari by penix1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But I still think it is a stupid decision. They are limiting the market share of their product, in an area where a popular free alternative exists with Firefox. This is not like using MacOS to push hardware sales.


    I don't think so. They are saving time, trouble and money by not supporting the problems of non-apple hardware. They are a hardware vendor after all. By not supporting competing hardware they automatically rule out 100s of different configuration problems. All one has to do is look at the fight Mozilla is having keeping up on security / bug issues in FireFox since it was first released for Windows to see that elimination of a subset of problems saves trouble for the developers.
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  8. Re:fyi 700 crore by Alsee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, in other words, less than Microsoft pays per year for power alone.

    Yeah, but usually those power payments are made to politicians, not courts.

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  9. Re:Safari by ronanbear · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought it was just an oversight. Safari for Windows is important because it's the same browser that the iPhone uses and getting Safari marketshare up on Windows was an important way to improve iPhone compatibility and allow web developers to test pages easily.

    Apple don't need a Eula to limit installing when standard disclaimers cover all the configuration problems.

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