SAP

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.

2019

SUSE Said It Was Becoming Independent But Instead It Became Like an ‘Asset’ of SAP (‘German Microsoft’), Which is Hostile Towards Free Software

2010

Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up

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

2009

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

2008

Novell Enters a Microsoft Partners Triangle