Summary: Threats by proximity and dependency, as covered in the news

Patents

Microsoft is attacking its competition with patents while IDG's Microsoft boosters take a break from openwashing and whitewashing Microsoft, instead raving about the patents Microsoft gets with Skype. They also write about embrace & extend moves that put Microsoft nearer to the core of Linux, as we saw elsewhere recently.

Microsoft Linux

Mac Asay writes about Microsoft's latest embrace and extend (for more proprietary lockin), which he comments on here (ignore the headline, Asay does not write the headlines). Microsoft exploits hooks even in the kernel, which is not new. We have explained Microsoft's goals dozens of times before.

Black Duck

When releasing proprietary scareware is "Support[ing] Open Source" (news here too), then we know that Black Duck is lying again. But then again, Black Duck was created by a former marketing exectuive from Microsoft.

We already have a detailed idnex page about Black Duck. It explains what's wrong with it, unlike newspapers that just repeat the deceitful press releases. ⬆