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Rapidminer Series (1/5): Is it Possible to Program in SAS Without Using a SAS Institute Solution?

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The SAS programming language started to be developed in 1966. Ten years later, SAS Institute was founded and remained for decades the only company offering the possibility to program in SAS.

Since the 2000s, a competitor has been offering the ability to program in SAS without using SAS Institute products.

Here are the key milestones in the history of this company, which has been acquired twice.

2000: Founding of the British Company World Programming

The product is called WPS, or World Programming System.

2010 was a significant year for the company. It won its case against SAS Institute.

In 2010 World Programming defended its use of the language of SAS in the High Court of England and Wales in SAS Institute Inc. v World Programming Ltd.[20]

The software was the subject of a lawsuit by SAS Institute. The EU Court of Justice ruled in favor of World Programming, stating that the copyright protection does not extend to the software functionality, the programming language used and the format of the data files used by the program. It stated that there is no copyright infringement when a company which does not have access to the source code of a program studies, observes and tests that program to create another program with the same functionality.[21]

Source: Wikipedia

December 2021: Altair Engineer (USA) Announced the Acquisition of Word Programming

The products have been renamed Altair SLC (for the engine) and Altair Workbench (for the interface).

December 2024: Siemens (Germany) Announces the Acquisition of Altair Engineering

The products have been renamed RapidMiner SLC.

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