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."

Got Karma?

[russlar]

How appropriate, that in India, the birthplace of Karma, Microsoft gets whacked with a hefty dose of it.

He who lives ....

[Anonymous Coward]

He who lives by the EULA, dies by the EULA

Re:If only Washington State would tax Microsoft to

[Robert1]

You said billion twice for emphasis, even though it clearly says million even in the article's damn title.

Re:pwndbyowneula tag.

[capnkr]

...or maybe "openmouthinsertfoot". :)

Glad to see there is some justice still floating around out there...

Re:He who lives ....

[snl2587]

Gives a new meaning to the term "end user"...

Re:pwndbyowneula tag.

[russlar]

That's almost as good as Safari for Windows' EULA banning itself. eulaselfpwnage?

Re:dear god!

[i_liek_turtles]

Personally, I blame Microsoft.

Re:dear god!

[edwardpickman]

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

They're trying to appeal to an older half blind crowd. Just be thankful there isn't sound.

Re:dear god!

[EdIII]

Thank God you said something. I thought I was hallucinating.

Re:dear god!

[Hal_Porter]

I think it would have been funnier if they introduced the new UI on April 1st and then said on April the 2nd that it wasn't in fact a joke.

After Dark

[suck_burners_rice]

Remember the old "After Dark" screensaver suite for Windows 3.1? The one with the infamous "Flying Toasters" screensaver?

What Vista needs is a "Flying Chairs" screensaver. Especially in light of the furniture that became airborne in Redmond at receipt of this news.

Re:pwndbyowneula tag.

[Divebus]

The Safari for Windows EULA has language prohibiting Safari form being installed on anything but a mac.

Actually, it must be installed on "Apple labeled hardware". That's what the stickers that came with your iPod are for.

Re:dear god!

[cp.tar]

I think they need to roll back the whole frigging site about a year.

To what? OMG PWNIEZ?

Is this calculated in the TCO?

[erroneus]

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?

Reassuring

[RichPowers]

That even MS employees don't read the EULA...

Microsoft in the same boat as software "pirates"

[realkiwi]

So do terrorist software pirates pay tax? Nope http://w3.bsa.org/thailand/press/newsreleases/IDC-Study.cfm [bsa.org]
Well look who is in the same boat...

Re:dear god!

[Anonymous Coward]

bigger in height

Around here they call that idea "taller."

p.s. Sorry for the smallness in length of this post.

Re:dear god!

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot viewing experience may vary for the trendy and pretentious.

Re:dear god!

[AJWM]

It's worse that than. Those damn oval buttons keep giving me flashbacks of OpenLook.
Hey Slashdot, the 1980s called, they want their GUI back.

Re:pwndbyowneula tag.

[Anonymous Coward]

I just knew that one day that stupid license would come back to bite them in the ass. Does any one have Bill Gates home phone number? I feel a "Ha Ha" coming on.

Re:Got Karma?

[naveenoid]

Looks like M$ couldnt curry any favours there ;)

Re:dear god!

[Alsee]

Yeah, I really love the new giant "Reply to This" and "Parent" buttons.

You see I have twenty-twohundred vision, and I don't bother using any special browser software for the visually impaired.

I also have cerebral palsy and because of my hand-spasms the gigantic buttons make it much easier to hit them with my mouse.

I'm also really really stupid and the new button designs help smack me in the brain when I get confused and keep forgetting how to reply and that there are parent posts and how to get to them.

I also really love bellbottom jeans. In fact my favorite jeans are polkadot bellbottoms. HEAY! YEAH! They should put POLKADOTS on the Reply and Parent buttons! THAT WOULD ROCK!

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Well...

[mutube]

Agreed. Maybe if they made Slashdot look like this [myspace.com] we'd actually get some work done?

Re:dear god!

[Alsee]

No no, you *almost* had it there... they should have introduced the UI change on March 31. Then on April 1st they could talk about how it was an April Fools gag accidentally went live a day early. Then on April 2nd, as you suggest, they could state the April 1st talk about it being an "accidental early leaked gag" was all a joke.

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Re:dear god!

[Alsee]

forced to preview the post.

Hey hey hey! Watch it there! IT IS TIME TO SPEAK UP!

First the preview-before-posting Nazis came for the people that didn't preview before postsing, but I always preview before posting, so I didn't speak up.
Then the RTFA Nazis came for the people who didn't RTFA before posting, and there was no one left to speak up for me.

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Re:pwndbyowneula tag.

[mpe]

Actually, it must be installed on "Apple labeled hardware". That's what the stickers that came with your iPod are for.

They probably couldn't complain if you used fruit sticker, so long as it came from an apple.

Re:Got Karma?

[Alsee]

Thanx for the fix. Ok, a point equals one percent of one percent. I am now one point closer to being a financial guru :)

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Re:attention whoring or just ad revenue?

[somersault]

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.

:O you really must be new here..

Re:Got Korma?

[somersault]

Korma whoring will get you everywhere, my friend

This is Slashdot.

[argent]

I like the Ajaxiness.

This is Slashdot. It bloody well needs to be completely usable without Javascript. What do they think this is, ZDNet?

Re:dear god!

[xbytor]

I thought that would be 'embiggen'.