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."

pwndbyowneula tag.

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).

Re:pwndbyowneula tag.

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

Re:pwndbyowneula tag.

The Safari for Windows EULA has language prohibiting Safari form being installed on anything but a mac. It was posted on slashdot a few days ago. that's the joke I was referencing.

Re:pwndbyowneula tag.

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:pwndbyowneula tag.

passitontotheconsumer

Got Karma?

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

He who lives ....

He who lives by the EULA, dies by the EULA

Re:He who lives ....

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

dear god!

leave the slashdot gui alone!

Re:dear god!

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

Re:dear god!

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

Re:dear god!

I think a good compromise would be to integrate the Reply to this/Parent links into the title/score bar, but align it to the right side. Oh, and for the love of god, don't make the buttons so huge that the bar gets bigger in height.

Re:dear god!

bigger in height

Around here they call that idea "taller."

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

Re:dear god!

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

To what? OMG PWNIEZ?

Re:dear god!

Slashdot viewing experience may vary for the trendy and pretentious.

Re:dear god!

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:dear god!

Personally, I blame Microsoft.

Re:dear god!

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.

Re:dear god!

Ok, unusable is the wrong word. Ugly fits better. At least I can submit a post without opening a new tab now. And one is forced to preview the post.

Is this calculated in the TCO?

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?

Microsoft in the same boat as software "pirates"

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:If only Washington State would tax Microsoft to

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

Re:Obligatory

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.

HP and WalMart

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?"

Re:fyi 700 crore

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.