SAP

From Techrights

SAP is like the 'Microsoft of Europe'. Microsoft was going to acquire SAP at one stage and these companies lobby together against software freedom. SAP has a history of making some very Free software-hostile remarks that stirred up the public. More recent examples are summarised below.

• Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up
• SAP/Microsoft Attack on Java, OpenOffice.org, Other Libre Products Culminates in Alliance
• When Microsoft Wanted to Buy SAP…
• Erwin Tenhumberg Can Convince SAP to Stop Attacking Sun and Free Software
• Novell Enters a Microsoft Partners Triangle
• Giving Legitimacy to Microsoft at the Expense of “Open Source”
• Software Patents Lobbyists Disguised as ‘Open Source’ Friends/Companies
• Dark Day for HP: Microsoft Ally Becomes Its New CEO (SAP CEO)
• SAP Uses SUSE to Compete Against Novell and Promote Proprietary Software