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Black Duck

Black Duck was created by a former Microsoft executive and it engages with Free software projects/companies. It is not a Free software firm, it only pretends to be one. Black Duck also acquired Ohloh, a company was created by former Microsoft employees. Techrights wrote about Black Duck in many posts including the following list.

2023

  • Linux.com Dominated by Microsofters


    • 2020

  • The Founder of Black Duck Still Works for Microsoft


    • 2016

  • Latest Black Duck Puff Pieces a Good Example of Bad Journalism and How Not to Report
  • FUD Against Free Software Adoption in the Government and in Businesses Comes From Firms Connected to Microsoft
  • IDG Publishes an 'Ad' For Black Duck, But it Looks Like an Article and It's Inflammatory for Hits (Click Bait)


    • 2015

  • HeBS Digital and Black Duck Press Releases Treated Like Articles, Used to Muddy the FOSS Waters
  • Red Hat Makes an Error by Liaising With Proprietary Software Firm and Source of FUD, Supposedly for ‘Security’
  • Microsoft-Connected FOSS FUD Firm Black Duck Says It Can Cost $25,000 to Fix a Bug in FOSS
  • Black Duck Continues to Pile FUD on Free/Libre Software
  • Black Duck Still Destroying, Lying, Rewriting History
  • Corporate Media Should Stop Grooming Black Duck by Calling it ‘Open Source’ and Repeating Its Lies
  • The Unethical Business of Selling Fear of Free/Libre Software Bugs (Black Duck, Sonatype, and Symantec)
  • Black Duck’s Latest Self-Promotional Propaganda (for Proprietary Software) Still Fools Journalists
  • The Anti-Free Software Movement Grows (Security a Common Attack Vector), Connections to Microsoft Noteworthy
  • FUD Alliance: VeraCode Co-founder Joins Black Duck
  • Microsoft-connected Black Duck Software Created by Microsoft Marketing Man as an Anti-GPL Operation, Admits the Management
  • Parasitical Firms Like Black Duck Exploit Bugs With Branding to Market Nonfree Services/Software


    • 2014

  • Black Duck Debunked Again, Data Asserted Invalid
  • Redmonk is Spreading Black Duck’s Anti-GPL Talking Points After Payments From Black Duck, Microsoft
  • New Lies About Microsoft ‘Privacy’ and New FUD Against the GPL Comes From ‘Former’ Microsoft Staff at Black Duck
  • Black Duck a Trojan Horse in the Linux Foundation and Elsewhere
  • False Spokespeople for Free Software
  • Open Source Think Tank is Still Not About Open Source


    • 2013

  • Big Money in FUD Against Free/Libre Software Licensing
  • OSI President Accuses Microsoft Proxy Black Duck of Spreading FUD
  • Too Many Microsoft Proxies Inside the FOSS World
  • Black Duck, Founded by Microsoft Marketing Guy and Seemingly Funded by Microsoft (in Part), is Openwashing Microsoft Again


    • 2012

  • Bruce Perens Accuses Black Duck of B.S. on GPL
  • Microsoft Vultures Under Research Campaigns
  • Analysing the FOSS World Based on Companies of Former Microsoft Staff
  • Growing the FOSS Fear Industry
  • Data From Black Duck Challenged Again
  • Trusting Microsoft-friendly Companies When It Comes to GPL Trending (Updated)


    • 2011

  • Free Software/GPL FUD Arrives From Microsoft Infiltrators
  • Former Microsoft Managers Still Monetise Fear of GPL
  • Black Duck: Microsoft Windows Only No More
  • Proprietary Leadership Over Free/Libre and Open Source Projects
  • Proprietary Software Company With Microsoft Roots Organises ‘Open Source Think Tank’
  • Open Source Community Harmed by Acquisition


    • 2010

  • Giving Legitimacy to Microsoft at the Expense of “Open Source”
  • Black Duck: Proprietary Software for Proprietary Software
  • Microsoft Hijacks “Open Source” From GNU/Linux Just Like It Hijacked “Standards”
  • Patents Roundup: EFF Defends VoIP; Google, Apple, and Black Duck Stifle Progress; Microsoft Joins RPX
  • Black Duck Wants Proprietary Monopoly on Free Software Analysis, SFLC Responds


    • 2009

  • Looking for Violations in Free Software: Fearsome or Awesome?
  • Black Duck Uses Scare Tactics Against Free Software, to Market Its Proprietary Software
  • What is Microsoft Doing Inside the ‘Press’?
  • Do Citrix and Black Duck Help Microsoft Embrace (and Extend) “Open Source”
  • Companies Created by Former Microsoft Employees Rally Around Novell, (Pseud)Open Source
  • Black Duck to Promote Microsoft/Windows-only Code


    • 2008

  • Microsoft Executives Land Inside Microsoft Rivals
  • A Black Duck Loses Its Head
  • Marriages of Inconvenience


    • Category:Microsoft Proxies