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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. If only Washington State would tax Microsoft too by newscloud · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

  2. Re:dear god! by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot GUI was fine before. Now it is wierd, and takes more space.

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  3. Re:dear god! by Washii · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've got to say, I'm reading this in Fx3 beta 3 still and I've got no performance problems.

    I can't imagine what my Fx2 install would do on this page, though.

  4. Re:pwndbyowneula tag. by Mateito · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > (a crore is 10 million).

    "Not Crore! Crore!"

    (Maybe that means nothing to anybody else....)

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  5. Re:dear god! by erayd · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Gotta say I actually quite like the new version - not for the looks, but for the function. Being able to click parent and have it autoscroll, and then being able to easily find the post I diverted from is a big improvement on slowly scrolling up until I find the parent, and then using the browser's search function to find the post I was looking at previously.

    Also loving the new inline comments ;-)

    I do think the buttons are waaay too big now though. And the grey just looks wrong - /me thinks the buttons should all be /. green.

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  6. Re:dear god! by symbolset · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually I was hoping they could make it blink. Every blog on the internet needs fifty huge blinking "Reply to this" buttons on every page, you know, so people can figure out which button to push to reply to my comments.

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  7. Re:dear god! by ggvaidya · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The autoscroll-thing didn't work on Opera until this site update. I don't know which other browsers it was "turned off" for.

  8. Safari by Lonewolf666 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I guess Apple wants to limit Safari for Windows to Macs running Windows via Boot Camp (or whatever it is named now). So it does not completely ban itself.

    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.

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  9. Re:pwndbyowneula tag. by moogied · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lol.. "Moment Please."

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