If anyone's interested in the knee-jerk reactions of uninformed teenage geeks to Moodle and it's Open Source brethren then they should check out Ask Slashdot: An Open Source Alternative to Blackboard?
Actually, in all honesty you find some interesting stuff on Slashdot if you know how to navigate the responses to cut out all the nonsense. In various previous entries related to VLE's I've found various personal stories from actual students who've been exposed to various VLEs (though normally at the tech-savvy, Comp Sci end of things) and from VLE administrators supporting various systems. The feedback is generally more, um, 'candid' than you get in press releases, official announcements, and feedback surveys so probably worth a look.