Re: [school-discuss] LMS & patent issues

[Stephen Downes <stephen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hiya,

Full (or as full as I can make) history and commentary of the Blackboard 
patent issue here:  http://www.downes.ca/blackboard_patent.htm

-- Stephen

Justin Riddiough wrote:
> With what Steve mentioned - "We do discuss the current patent issue
> toward the end of the interview."
>
> I've been seeing a lot of news about this over the last few days.  I
> just found this article from yesterday as well, which mentions that
> Sakai & the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) with Eben Moglen are
> going to be taking a look at this issue.
>
> As far as the patent issues relating to LMS's and are concerned with
> open source, IMO, this seems like the effort to get behind & support.
>
> http://www.sakaiproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=442&Itemid=312 
>
>
> Also, this guy Michael Feldstein has been on top of this as it has
> developed..I've been checking out his blog.
>
> http://mfeldstein.com/


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