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Blackboard is also known for harassing and suing its competitors based on frivolous patents, and for fixing prices. A mobile app and a UX redesign are nice, but
by ak217 11y ago
Blackboard is also known for harassing and suing its competitors based on frivolous patents, and for fixing prices. A mobile app and a UX redesign are nice, but hardly sufficient, when they're funded by those kinds of practices.
- techpeace 11y agoI once worked for a startup in the education industry. One day, when Blackboard released a new product that directly competed with us, we noticed that their new logo was an obvious, clearly intentional rip-off of our own. It was actually gratifying, as a group of mostly recent graduates, to so clearly have threatened a billion dollar company.