The leaders of higher education’s main technology association have written a powerfully worded letter urging Blackboard to relinquish the rights it gained under a controversial patent of online learning technologies in the public domain and to drop a patent infringement lawsuit it filed in August against a Canadian competitor, Desire2Learn.
More (including the text of the letter sent to Blackboard) at http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/10/27/educause
Regards,
Art