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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)

Dark Day for HP: Microsoft Ally Becomes Its New 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

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