Oops, I've made a huge mistake here, apologies. I confused SAS for SAP, the German business stats company. My post was entirely from this wrong perspective, tha

Oops, I've made a huge mistake here, apologies. I confused SAS for SAP, the German business stats company. My post was entirely from this wrong perspective, that it would be replacing EU business software with open source software. In light of the new understanding, I fully agree with you that it was extremely shortsighted and sad to have tech leadership oppose a project which directly gives a US company access to such sensitive data with open source alternatives.