{"id":109783,"date":"2021-11-18T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T10:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=109783"},"modified":"2021-11-19T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:28:13","slug":"source-code-and-intellectual-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/source-code-and-intellectual-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Source code and intellectual property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They base their findings on an expert opinion by lawyers who probably have every legal competence but obviously have less idea about cybernetics, computer science and IT science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the accusations is secret appropriation of a competitor's source code. Everyone in the SAP community knows that the SAP source code, with its numerous Abap tables, is ultimately an open book. SAP obviously cares less about its own intellectual property, but the accusation is that SAP has helped itself elsewhere. <\/p><div id=\"great-3973790329\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yfv7eho3Gc\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Fullsize\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fullsize\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In computer science, tracing back ideas and thus intellectual property is sometimes a challenging process. Often, methods and procedures are discussed for years at relevant congresses and universities before someone is found who also packages this knowledge into an algorithm. As a result, there are very few software patents worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally, there are solution paths and operating procedures that are unique and thus worth protecting. An efficient sorting algorithm is certainly intellectual property of the inventor to be protected. Likewise, in the future, many programs for quantum computing will remain the intellectual property of researchers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extent to which ERP programs can be protected has not yet been decided: a very good friend of mine was on a study trip to China about ten years ago; there, at a university, he was shown an ERP system he had developed himself. He was asked to take a seat in front of a screen and possibly test the program himself - he was able to operate it perfectly from the very first moment, because it behaved like the numerous SAP systems on which he had been working for decades.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spectacular text \"The dark side of SAP\" on page 62 of issue 2021\/46, the Spiegel authors believe they have convicted the ERP global corporation of intellectual property theft.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27840],"tags":[453,39128,39926,23868,8855,39824],"coauthors":[27825],"class_list":["post-109783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chefredakteur-blog","tag-abap","tag-chefredakteur","tag-chefredakteurblog","tag-geistiges-eigentum","tag-peter-faerbinger","tag-pmf","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","image-100":"","image-480":"","image-640":"","image-720":"","image-960":"","image-1168":"","image-1440":"","image-1920":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":"","bricks_large_16x9":"","bricks_large":"","bricks_large_square":"","bricks_medium":"","bricks_medium_square":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>In dem spektakul\u00e4ren Text \u201eDie dunkle Seite von SAP\u201c glauben die Spiegel-Autoren in Ausgabe 2021\/46 auf Seite 62, den ERP-Weltkonzern des Diebstahls geistigen Eigentums \u00fcberf\u00fchrt zu haben.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/editor-in-chief-blog\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Chefredakteur-Blog<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Peter M. 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