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SAP Exec Disparages Open Source As IP Socialism
FlorianMueller writes "According to a VNUnet report, Shai Agassi, the president of the product and technology group at SAP, disparaged open source as 'more likely to break applications' than to deliver innovation. He also equated the open-source development model with 'Intellectual property [IP] socialism,' which he says 'is the worst that can happen to any IP-based society.' In Europe, it isn't a secret that SAP's management primarily views open source as a threat to its business, and that SAP is politically on Microsoft's side. SAP and Microsoft co-financed certain pro-patent lobbying activities in Europe, and recently co-founded the European Software Association, an entity that is expected to lobby for software patents and against open-source adoption by European governments."
> It means looking after your fellow man, particularly those who have nothing.
And the main reason people have nothing is because they have lost it or proven themselves incapable of acquiring it through actions of their own. You get what you deserve and all in a world where it's possible for an immigrant to this country to become one of its richest men.
Why should I be helping people who refuse to help themselves? That's just going to promote laziness and dependence on me.