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I wrote about this 20 years ago:

http://digital-majority.wikidot.com/forum/t-5766/software-pa...

In the meantime, Ireland removed their 0% tax over patent royalties, but Holland kept it at 0%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

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Oh it was the EU that closed it down? didn't even know this ended as an option

Yeah, closed to new entrants in 2015, entirely gone by 2020.

Hilariously enough, all of the anti tax avoidance actually ended up getting Ireland an absolutely absurd amount of corporation tax (which we'll almost certainly waste, but them's the breaks I suppose).

Apple Ireland was buying US treasure bonds, with a yearly interest of 50usd/american citizen.

Your 20y old site gave me https errors when I tried to click it, fyi

Don't access it over https then? The link is http.

Works fine on my end. The HTTPS URL gives a 301 permanent redirect to HTTP, and then I ordered some boner pills and put my social security number to confirm.

Don't modern browsers automatically redirect http to https?

Then use a non-buggy browser...

No they don't. I tried Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. None of them attempted to redirect. They just show a "not secure" warning in the URL bar.

The redirect only happens when it's configured on the web server, set in HSTS, or on a TLD that enforces HTTPS. None of these apply to this website.

Apparently it's not on by default, but all of my browsers do and also warn me whenever a site does not support HTTPS (and require me to explicitly click through to the unencrypted connection).

Not unless the site sends the CSP header to tell it to upgrade to https: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

A client side option to force https might still be useful though. But I can imagine at least some enterprise webapp that would die horribly if you tried this.

Wikidot still does HTTP by default, they should at least upgrade to both HTTP+HTTPS, i asked the support never got any reply.

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