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Re: [News] Company Created by ex-Microsoft Employee Uses 'Secret' Numbers to Vilify GPL

  • Subject: Re: [News] Company Created by ex-Microsoft Employee Uses 'Secret' Numbers to Vilify GPL
  • From: Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:49:36 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> SFLC challenges Black Duck to open source code

How strange that a company founded to improve accountability through
transparency, should be so clandestine and opaque with its own software
and methods.

> ,----[ Quote ]
> | A recent report from Black Duck Software suggests there has been a 
> | five per cent decline in the use of GPL licences since 2008.

So, who is Black Duck, and what's their real motives?:

[quote]
Douglas A. Levin (born in New York City, New York), is founder of Black
Duck Software and served as its chief executive officer CEO from
December 2002 to August 31, 2008. He remains a member of the Black
Duck's Board of Directors ... He also worked for Microsoft Corporation
for eight years.
[/quote]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Levin


Well, there's your answer.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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