What a surprise! (Not...) Blackboard merges-with/takes-over WebCT and lo! the company with the monopoly starts legal proceedings against its rivals ... It's a sickening situation: We rely on Blackboard's software to support teaching so we're "safe" as we're using software supplied by the monopolist but I can't help but worry that Blackboard's eponymous LMS, which is a definite "Web 1.0" application, will continue to develop ever-so slowly while the company stifles competition until there are no competitors (commercial or open source), whereupon Blackboard's development will stop :-(
At least there's an apparent groundswell of support for the defendants & room for some black humour that I quite enjoyed...
Update@11AM Apparently, according to an article in the Chronicle of HE referenced in wikipedia, Blackboard won't go after open source LMS's...
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