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Re:Amazon’s Cloud Is Growing So Fast It’s Scaring Shareholders by toast0 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @09:53PM (#8094734)
They skirted the rules for local presence for a long time too. They had an engineering office in California, but were not charging sales tax. The office was a wholly owned subsidiary
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Re:Amazon’s Cloud Is Growing So Fast It’s Scaring Shareholders by msg on Monday July 28, 2014 @02:20AM (#8095456)
IMHO skirting the rules is legal. If you care about Amazon's behavior because of the law you should have no problem here. If you care about local presence for some other reason you should be talking about that instead.

You can't blame companies for operating within the four corners of the law. Perhaps you would prefer that they break the law.

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