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Any bets on how long before they are sued by Blackboard?
by jcromartie 16y ago
Any bets on how long before they are sued by Blackboard?
- DevX101 16y agoLooks like these guys are open source. Blackboard has some kind of a "pledge" on their site not to sue open source projects. EDIT, Found it: http://www.blackboard.com/About-Bb/Patents/Patent-Pledge.aspx http://www.blackboard.com/About-Bb/Patents/Patent-Pledge.asp...
- 2arrs2ells 16y agoI asked pg at startup school about doing an edtech startup, and his answer was something like "Well, schools move to slowly to ever get traction, but if you ever did get traction, Blackboard would sue the crap out of you immediately." (That said, I'm still planning an edtech startup. Best of luck to instructure!)
- j_baker 16y agoEither that or they'd buy them out. Or they might use a lawsuit to convince them to sell at firesale prices.
- streeter 16y agoDoes Blackboard have some patents in the space that they leverage when suing? On what grounds do they sue?
- patrickyeon 16y agoYes, an analysis here: http://mfeldstein.com/blackboard_patents_the_lms/ http://mfeldstein.com/blackboard_patents_the_lms/ The executive summary is "any groupware that involves student interaction."
- abraham 16y agoI'm sure they have lots of patens but they also have lots of money. It is hard for a small startup to take on that much money in a legal battle.
- ryankshaw 16y agoactually, ironically enough Desire2Learn, the company who whined about being sued by Blackboard already tried. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51072915-76/utah-contract-instructure-uen.html.csp http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51072915-76/utah-contract-... & http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/irony-alert-desire2learn-critic-of-litigation-sues-over-utah-contract/29118 http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/irony-alert-desire2le... ...until D2L realized how bad they were making themselves look.