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.

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