Re:‘Dutch sandwich’ grows as Google shifts €8.8bn to Bermuda
by waqf on Friday October 11, 2013 @11:23AM
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If you genuinely think there's an unfair advantage here, buy some GOOG stock. Then you'll be on the receiving end!
Re:‘Dutch sandwich’ grows as Google shifts €8.8bn to Bermuda
by phaemon on Friday October 11, 2013 @11:29AM
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If I genuinely think someone's stealing, I should buy stolen goods to take advantage of the situation?
That's an interesting moral viewpoint!
Re:‘Dutch sandwich’ grows as Google shifts €8.8bn to Bermuda
by patrickaljord on Friday October 11, 2013 @01:08PM
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Getting to keep your own money is stealing now? How Orwellian .
Re:‘Dutch sandwich’ grows as Google shifts €8.8bn to Bermuda
by phaemon on Friday October 11, 2013 @03:05PM
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Keeping your money when you owe it for a service is, yes. It's called "theft of services".
EDIT: Perhaps I should put it more clearly...
If you sell goods on Google Play, I believe there is a fee of 30%. Now, imagine I found a bug in the Google Play store that meant that, even though I sold millions of copies of my app, I actually paid 0% to the Play Store. Do you think that Google would just accept that I'd found a bug in their software and therefore I owed them nothing? Do you think I owe them nothing?
Google chose to participate in a market where the costs were clearly labelled up-front and they didn't even have to pay a penny unless they made a significant profit!
Why the hell should they get away with paying nothing for a service that other people pay a lot of money for?
People are annoyed about it because it's stealing from the rest of us who do pay our taxes.