THE firm known as Black Duck recently admitted its roots in GPL FUD, not just in Microsoft (the founder's employer for many years). Black Duck recently took advantage of perceptions of FOSS security issues (using bugs with "branding") to market its proprietary software products. A press release now informs us that VeraCode's co-founder is joining Black Duck. We wrote about Veracode at Techrights several times before. Black Duck and Veracode have much in common, with examples such as security FUD that has "branding" to act as a stigma against Free software, as we recently (earlier this year) saw (both Black Duck and Veracode have been doing this in recent months). We are sure they'll have a lot of experiences to share and many strategies to sell based on fear, or even create this fear by appearing in the media with famous brands such as "GHOST", "Shellshock", and "Heartbleed". ⬆