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Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on License Fee
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."
I suggest two new tags - 'pwndbyowneula' or 'canthaveitbothways' (although the old faithful 'haha' adequately expresses the extent of my sympathy for MS).
Oh, and for those wondering, RS 700 crore == 175 Million USD. (a crore is 10 million).
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
How appropriate, that in India, the birthplace of Karma, Microsoft gets whacked with a hefty dose of it.
Anybody want my mod points?
He who lives by the EULA, dies by the EULA
leave the slashdot gui alone!
You said billion twice for emphasis, even though it clearly says million even in the article's damn title.
This must mean that 2008 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!
Totally offtopic, please mod me down, but 2008 is the year of Linux on the desktop already!
Asus can't make enough eeePCs to meet demand, other retailers are coming out with cheap linux desktop products, Linux is finally being offered as an alternative by system builders.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Maybe instead a Borg Bill should be portrayed as Pinocchio.
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.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
That would be the "Total Cost of Pwnership!"
Damnit! I have gone for YEARS without using the term or anything similar simply because I thought it was stupid. Now look who's doing it?
So do terrorist software pirates pay tax? Nope http://w3.bsa.org/thailand/press/newsreleases/IDC-Study.cfm
Well look who is in the same boat...
realkiwi
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?"
Help stamp out iliturcy.
The article implies that there neither sales tax nor company income tax (of the MS subsidiary/partner) exists in India. Is this the case? Is the tax on royalties the only tax income the Indian people get from software peddlers in India?
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
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.
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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The only thing that slightly worries me about this: if the EULA is what is causing MS to pay the tax, then in paying the tax, MS can clearly say that the EULA is valid (in India at least) as the government has demanded legal taxes based on it.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet;
A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell
Agreed. Maybe if they made Slashdot look like this we'd actually get some work done?
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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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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.
the more they over-think the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the pipe
Korma whoring will get you everywhere, my friend
which is totally what she said