have no principles (Score 1)

If you want to sell your product and the product is to be used on a computer, don't take a stand.

Let the client decide how he/she wants to implement your product.

I'd rather make 11+ billion Euros having not chosen for one (OSS) or the other (proprietary) than make a few euros being an idiot and shutting out part of my market because I don't support their setup.

Thankfully not everybody cares about this Holy War of Licensing, but just wants to do business.

The fact that SAP doesn't publicly take a stand on license must creep out the 'FLOSS'-crowd because now for all purposes their opinion is ignored, they have no say and their ego can't handle that.

I prefer open source, but the client is always right...