From Techrights

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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