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SAP Admits to 'Inappropriate' Downloading of Oracle Code

Posted by Zonk on from the think-then-do-think-then-do dept.

netbuzz writes "SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann uses the undoubtedly lawyered term 'inappropriate download' to describe the company's questionable actions. Henning blames a rogue business unit, but there can be no mistaking the fact that Oracle caught SAP with its hand in the IP jar on this one. The legal proceedings that will follow should prove interesting. 'The admission hurts SAP's reputation in the battle with Larry Ellison's Oracle in the $56 billion market for software that manages tasks such as payroll. The rivalry between SAP and Oracle escalated when Oracle filed its March 22 lawsuit claiming SAP workers hacked into a Web site and stole software codes on a grand scale.'"

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  1. Sound familiar? by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 5, Funny

    I did not have inappropriate downloads with that source code!

    1. Re:Sound familiar? by Torvaun · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now can you show me on the doll where that bad man compiled you?

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    2. Re:Sound familiar? by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: 2, Funny

      I did not have inappropriate downloads with that source code!

      The logfile in my server closet says otherwise -- your grep is all over it.

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  2. Codes plural? by Random+BedHead+Ed · · Score: 5, Funny

    and stole software codes on a grand scale

    They stoles codes? Oh noes!

    1. Re:Codes plural? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...software codes...
      <blink> <blink>
      (checks again)
      developers.slashdot.org
      (pounds head on desk)
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    2. Re:Codes plural? by Dachannien · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yep, they downloaded one code over each internet.

  3. Too bad... by rootology · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just think how many problems like this could be solved if someone went and invented some sort of free software licensing system, and everyone adopted it...

  4. Re:Confused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Probably. Makes perfect sense to me. As a Windows Vista developer in Redmond I always post the full OS source code to developer.microsoft.com. I like it better than the local store because the password is "msrulez" and I find that easier to remember than the long passwords they make us use on the internal systems. (Mine currently is "Dev0944438766****" - annoying, isn't it? I had to throw my social security number in there to get it to the length the admins required.)

  5. Heh by glwtta · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Unbreakable", my ass.

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  6. Re:Can I get a consensus opinion? by kevin_conaway · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what you're saying is, if I break into your house and write down the combination for your safe, I haven't stolen the combination? I think the popular use of the word "theft" would cover such a case. I've stolen the secrecy, which is the value in a secret combination.

    I don't follow you. Can you try again with a car analogy?

  7. Re: SAP Admits to 'Inappropriate' Downloading by Is0m0rph · · Score: 4, Funny

    Umm this is SAP we're talking about. If you've ever used SAP you'd know there's no possible way they improved anybody else's code ;)