CALIopolis

Inside HigherEd has recently posted an article about the BlackBoard patent issue and in it BlackBoard's General Counsel Matthew Small opines...

"...Blackboard has no plans to challenge open source projects on patent issues, and he said that such challenges “wouldn’t make good business sense” for the company..."

That's great to hear, but it seems that BlackBoard is struggling to get people to believe them when they say this. There is a simple solution.

Put it in writing.

What I mean is that now that BlackBoard has the patent, they can license it to the Sakai Project or Martin Dougimas (aka "Mr. Moodle") or others. We know they have lawyers, so it should be a simple matter to draft up a license agreement that gives sufficient rights to Sakai and others so that they can stop worrying.

It would go a long way towards assuaging the communities fears.

I am delighted to post that CALI now has 201 US Law School Members.

This past week, the University of Virginia School of Law joined CALI and the recently launched, Drexel University College of Law also joined.

This brings the number of US Law School CALI Members to over 200 for the first time in our 26 years of existence and represents almost every law school in the US.

For a complete list of CALI's members and affiliates, click here.