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You have any examples of them starting legal action based on their patents? They have a "patent pledge" not to prosecute if you implement Open Source software,
by DevX101 16y ago
You have any examples of them starting legal action based on their patents?
They have a "patent pledge" not to prosecute if you implement Open Source software, even if it's integrated w/ propretary software to some extent.
http://www.blackboard.com/Company/Patents/Patent-Pledge.aspx http://www.blackboard.com/Company/Patents/Patent-Pledge.aspx
I'd love to know how broad this pledge is based on their actual past actions.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoIt doesn't really matter, the patent they used to sue Desire2Learn got invalidated last year as part of the legal battle and a couple of weeks ago Blackboard announced they were abandoning their appeal: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/blackboard-drops-appeals-on-software-patent/28494 http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/blackboard-drops-appe...