Comments on: Blackboard’s Patent FAQ #2: The Empire Strikes Back

By: Edmund Hunt

Edmund Hunt — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:54:52 +0000

I wouldn’t want anyone to step back from the fight. That is what will destroy this corporate strategy to own the Internet (patents, Internet neutrality, DRM, etc.) I am suggesting that the backlash to the Bb move could have the unintended consequence of accelerating the universities’ move away from commericial CMS or LMS.

By: Michael Feldstein

Michael Feldstein — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:24:45 +0000

And what would stop Blackboard (or somebody else) from patenting the next thing we do? No, running from this fight would be a big mistake.

By: Edmund Hunt

Edmund Hunt — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:48:36 +0000

Maybe we should be grateful to Bb for this move to monopolize LMS. It could push many universities to dump the old stye corporate LMS model, which is unfriendly and expensive, and to jump into the Web 2, online, roll your own learning models.