Toca turno a Sakai, y de camino a un artículo de News Forge :»Blackboard patent pledge greeted with mixed reactions« . Creéis que durará mucho el tema?.Bueno!!! Abajo tenéis el inicio del Press Release
The Boards of Directors of the Sakai Foundation and of EDUCAUSE recognize the patent pledge announced on February 1, 2007 by Blackboard as a step in a more positive direction for the community, to the extent that it offers some comfort to a portion of the academic community that uses open source or homegrown systems. In the pledge, Blackboard states that it will not assert certain patents against open source or home grown systems bundled with no proprietary software. We particularly welcome the inclusion of pending patents, the clarification on the commercial support, customization, hosting or maintenance of open source systems and the worldwide nature of Blackboard’s pledge. We also appreciate the willingness of Blackboard to continue with frank and direct dialogue with our two organizations and with other higher education representatives and groups to work toward addressing these problems of community concern.
Although Blackboard has included in the pledge many named open source initiatives, regardless of whether they incorporate proprietary elements in their applications, Blackboard has also reserved rights to assert its patents against other providers of such systems that are «bundled» with proprietary code. We remain concerned that this bundling language introduces legal and technical complexity and uncertainty which will be inhibitive in this arena of development. (leer más…)
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