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

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____/ Homer on Sunday 12 July 2009 20:49 : \____

> 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.

They have another guy from Microsoft (at the top).

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