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Blackboard Patenting Educational Groupware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-now-isn't-that-special dept.

chizz writes "Online learning provider Blackboard announced the other day that it has patented the Learning Management System (LMS). The very same day it went after Desire2Learn for Patent infringement in a truly Salt Lake City kinda way. A great many educators are a bit shook up by this, and are stockpiling prior art all over the place. "

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  1. Another Wikipedia link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't use Wikipedia links in slashdot articles. Why do such "intellegent nerds" use such unreliable sources that have been stampeeded by elephants. Slashdot has really hit the fan. Bring back the linux penguins, back when Mozilla was still 0.x, when Firefox was still a bird, when stretched anuses were the authoritative source.

    2006 will be seen as the least nerdiest year of nerd history. Slashdot used to be a heaven for the nerdiest websites. Now it is just a scrape of google tech news combined with some vandalized wikipedia articles.