Universities should stop using Blackboard. They tried to use a software patent to prevent competitors from implementing "roles" (otherwise known as user groups)

Universities should stop using Blackboard. They tried to use a software patent to prevent competitors from implementing "roles" (otherwise known as user groups). Eben Moglen even gave a keynote on this: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF06/Keynote+--+Eben+Moglen https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF06/Keynote+-... The keynote was followed by an open discussion with Blackboard's lawyer: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF06/Lunchtime+Discussion+with+Eben+Moglen+and+Matthew+Small https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF06/Lunchtime... As Eben Moglen put it: "Preventing people from learning how things work is the opposite of education."