Summary: Former Microsoft people gain influence inside Microsoft's competitors

THE PREVIOUS post spoke about a possible Microsoft patent lawsuits proxy. Speaking of proxies, the growth of Black Duck troubles us because it tries to tell us how to use and select FOSS despite being a proprietary company with Microsoft roots. Fortify, another ally of Microsoft [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], has an executive departure and the destination has FOSS orientation:

Open source security information and event management (SIEM) AlienVault has hired a new leadership team, grabbing a number of security industry veterans from Fortify Software.

More interesting than all the above is that an abusive Microsoft executive whom we wrote about before in relation to the Linux-based WebOS is put in charge of it:

Strangely, the release (embedded in full after the break) mentions that Bill will be leading HP's "cloud and webOS open source initiatives," but it fails to elaborate on what exactly those "initiatives" may be.

More background was posted here:

Veghte joined HP in 2010. In the most recent fiscal year, he grew HP’s software business by 18 percent. Prior to HP, he spent two decades at Microsoft in a variety of senior leadership positions. Most recently, he managed the company’s $15 billion global Windows€® business and was instrumental in the delivery and launch of Windows 7.

So a Windows executive now controls a Linux-based open source platform? This does not sound reassuring at all. ⬆