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SAP Exec Disparages Open Source As IP Socialism

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the code-envy dept.

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."

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  1. SAP uses open source by Aussie · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the SAP web shop you will find Python and Apache struts. They also open sourced their RDBMS.
    I can't logon on to work at moment and check (UPS maint), but it is full of it.

    It is possible this bloke doesn't speak for the whole company.