Comment WTF? (Score 1) 290
Shouldn't a company's researchers research to improve their own products?
Shouldn't a company's researchers research to improve their own products?
e.g. Intel.
Edison Chen.
I don't see any need to switch to linux except for research/coding/geek reasons, and none of these are for average users.
Microsoft, Xerox, Amazon AND Google all do something similar.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/apple-corporate-income-tax-rate_n_1429955.html
"Apple paid a top tax rate of just 9.8 percent in 2011, the report says. Google paid a rate of 11.9 percent, while Yahoo paid 11.6 percent and Microsoft paid 18.9 percent. Xerox paid 7.3 percent of its income in taxes, while Amazon paid only 3.5 percent, according to the report."
As far as I know, Google has been doing this for a long time (somewhere short after it's founded I presume?)
It is just how the corporation world goes with the current laws and regulations, nothing immoral. You can't stop companies from moving their manufacture to the low-labor-cost countries, similarly, you can't prevent the companies doing this to reduce the tax bill. As long as it can keep the company strong (by cutting cost) and is legal, they will (have to) do this to stay competitive and (more) profitable. It's like water will eventually settle to the lowest spot they can flow to.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android