Blackboard Patenting Educational Groupware
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Slashdot | Blackboard Patenting Educational Groupware
“Online learning provider Blackboard announced the other day that it has patented the Learning Management System (LMS). The very same day it went after
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<p style="border: 1px solid orange; padding: 2px;">Ex-<a href="http://www.lemmingworks.org/weblog/?p=264">Lemmingworks</a>. <a href="http://www.lemmingworks.org/weblog/?p=264#comments">##</a>.</p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1217219&from=rss">Slashdot | Blackboard Patenting Educational Groupware</a><br />
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“Online learning provider Blackboard announced the other day that it has <a href="http://mfeldstein.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/blackboard_patents_the_lms">patented the Learning Management System (LMS)</a>. The very same day it went after <a href=""http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/blackboard.pdf>Desire2Learn for Patent infringement</a> in a truly Salt Lake City kinda way. A great many educators are a bit shook up by this, and are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments">stockpiling</a> <a href="http://docs.moodle.org/en/Online_Learning_History">prior art</a> all over the place. “</p></blockquote>
<p>Will they’ll be charging open source product with patent violation? or will they allow the small fry, but just put together a monopoly on institutional sized LMS? I can’t figure out what “Salt Lake City” has to do with it though. Thoughts?
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