Here is blog post which highlights why you should consider open source for your institution.
The information in the post mainly comes from public financial documents.
In reply to Colin Matheson
Re: A post about the dangers of corporate monopoly in ed tech.
by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
This recent discussion "Richard Stallman on Why schools should exclusively use free software" http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=126957 is closely related.
In reply to Visvanath Ratnaweera
Re: A post about the dangers of corporate monopoly in ed tech.
by Colin Fraser -
I understand that my empoyer's agreements with Blackboard are coming to an end. The scuttlebut is that it is not going to be renewed. After reading that item Colin, I am not surprised..