[TOS] Blackboard Embraces Sharing = 'Openwashing'?

[Bryant Patten]

http://www.fastcompany.com/1790122/pearson-blackboard?partner=gnews

{and for more thoughts on 'openwashing' - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_spot_openwashing.php 
  }


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> From: Cay Horstmann <cay.horstmann at gmail.com>
> To: "Karl R. Wurst" <karl.wurst at worcester.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [TOS] In Victory for Open-Education Movement,	Blackboard
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> ?This is something that is easier to do as a private company more  
> easily
> than as a public company because the risk of being misunderstood by
> investors is less,?
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> How lame is that? If you want your destiny to depend on the ownership
> structure of your software vendor, which happens to be entirely  
> outside
> your control, then closed source is for you.
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> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Karl R. Wurst <karl.wurst at worcester.edu 
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>> http://chronicle.com/blogs/**wiredcampus/in-victory-for-**
>> open-education-movement-**blackboard-embraces-sharing/**33776<http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/in-victory-for-open-education-movement-blackboard-embraces-sharing/33776 
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