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Submission + - Massachusetts enacts 6.25% sales tax on "prewritten" software consulting (codingoutloud.com) 1

marshallr writes: Technical Information Release TIR 13-10 becomes effective in Massachusetts on July 31st, 2013. It requires software consultants to collect a 6.25% sales tax from their clients if they perform "computer system design services and the modification, integration, enhancement, installation or configuration of standardized software." TIR 13-10 was published to mass.gov on July 25th, 2013 to provide the public a few working days to review the release and make comments. Can someone clue me in on what's meant by "prewritten" or "standardized" software?

Comment Re:Looks like email and the desktop were not enoug (Score 1) 320

Not politic, business.

Operating in china does not bring google profit. Add Baidou, a govt-subsidied competition and being routinelly hacked, they have reasons leave market. Saying they leave market makes them look weak and stock price would drop.

Making chinese goverment kick them out makes for quite nice PR stunt and will not really to much about stock price. And it actually makes them look strong.

They are still happy to censor in many other countries.

Not business, politics.

Google operates in many markets where they are not yet profitable and continue to do so. Their investment in China is very small compared to the potential market and the size of the company, so it makes good business sense for them to try to keep developing their market while it is still growing, especially when they have other products besides search to offer (like Andoird, Google Voice, etc.). Google is not just a search engine. Unless someone's figured out there is something wrong with the future of Chinese economy, it's not business.

They will work with other countries when they feel it's beneficial. But when those governments backstab and sponser cyberattacks right after shaking hands with them, it shows cooperation doesn't work.

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