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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.

=> Ohloh

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

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