The Kitchener Record, Desire2Learn’s hometown newspaper, is running a story on the patent infringement suit. With luck, more mainstream media outlets will begin reporting on it soon.
I’d like to address one comment in the article by Blackboard’s General Counsel, Matthew Small. He said,
This is not about reducing competition, it’s not about hindering innovation, and it is something we think is in line with our duty to our clients to protect their investment in us as well as to protect the investment we’ve made in our technology.
There are a number of ways in which this statement is off-base. (more…)