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Black Duck Attacks FOSS Again, for Marketing Purposes, Pretends It's "Research"

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 21st of April 2017 06:12:25 AM Filed under

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Majority of open source has security flaws [Ed: So Black Duck markets itself by attacking FOSS again. Microsoft-connected FUD firm.]
Buggy open source components still dog dev teams [Ed: IDG too is feeding them...]
Researchers find commercial banking apps contain swarms of open-source bugs [Ed: [No, Osborne, Black Duck are not "researchers", they're Microsoft goons]
Black Duck audit highlights risk of open-source security vulnerabilities [Ed: No, Black Duck is just doing marketing by attacking FOSS, as usual]
Black Duck Open Source audits of 1000+ applications show widespread weakness in addressing open source security vulnerability risks [Ed: this is their press release]

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Black Duck Attacks FOSS Again, for Marketing Purposes, Pretends It's "Research"

Majority of open source has security flaws [Ed: So Black Duck markets itself by attacking FOSS again. Microsoft-connected FUD firm.]

Buggy open source components still dog dev teams [Ed: IDG too is feeding them...]

Researchers find commercial banking apps contain swarms of open-source bugs [Ed: [No, Osborne, Black Duck are not "researchers", they're Microsoft goons]

Black Duck audit highlights risk of open-source security vulnerabilities [Ed: No, Black Duck is just doing marketing by attacking FOSS, as usual]

Black Duck Open Source audits of 1000+ applications show widespread weakness in addressing open source security vulnerability risks [Ed: this is their press release]