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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. First LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I lol'd. I really did.

    Also, another funny:

    Q. What do you do after raping a deaf, blind and dumb girl?
    A. Break her fingers so she can't tell anyone!

    1. Re:First LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You really need a hobby... or a girlfriend. Then again, the girlfriend would be a bad idea, so go for a hobby.

  2. Re:Codes plural? by L7_ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    they have stolen the codes!

    one of my pet peeves is pluralizing codes. its like broadcasting to the world "i do not know what i am talking about!". unless you are talking abuot the interwebnet codes.

  3. Re:Codes plural? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    developers.developers.developers.slashdot.org/thro w.chair?

    [abort][continue][cancel]

  4. Linus is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am with Linus on this one.

  5. stole software codes on a grand scale by Threni · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder how many codes they stole? For a Slashdot story, this is pretty poor.

  6. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT HORSECOCK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. HAD TO POST by stanchion7 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Long time reader of Slashdot.. haven't bothered to renew my account since my original