Comment by Noname on 2005-05-18 23:09:06
There must be some reason why Indian software companies are being short sighted. |
Comment by Noname on 2005-05-18 23:25:50
Well I alway thougth about the billions of taxes India could reclame from offshore companies.
Here is my idea:
If the company builds the car factory which produces 1000 cars and sell it, one definitly has to pay taxes to the state. The question how to value the software?
Imagine:
The company A makes a product B offshore.
Then it makes B * 1000000 copies in place C.
Then it sells these copies somewhere.
Technically the product B is made in one place and then ILLEGALLY copied by another department of multinational corporation for some reason (for ex. taxes optimisations).
The idea if intellectual property exists (?), so being produced in one country and exported to another one it's logical to clame some part of it for the state as a taxes. How do you like to ask 10% from Windows sell price for the India (China etc...). If trasnational company could illegaly copy the product made in China why China can't do the same??? Finally it's just a way to return a "stolen" one... :-))))
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Comment by Noname on 2005-05-19 03:16:39
What a bizarre idea.
Firstly, it has no basis in copyright law whatsoever. The company that commissions and pays for the work owns the copyright. Every IT outsourcing contract I've ever read has specific clauses assigning the copyright to the customer, for them to do with as they wish. So the idea there's any illegal copying going on is fanciful.
Secondly, companies outsource because it's [i]cheaper[/i]. Make outsourcing more expensive, and they may as well hire locals, or outsource somewhere else that doesn't have this strange IP export tax.
Which, I guess, would force Indian companies to innovate for themselves, because all the foreign contracts would have dried up. |
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