On 11/5/07, Fernando Vilas <fvilas at iname.com> wrote: > On Monday 05 November 2007 11:36:40 Shannon Roddy wrote: > > On 11/4/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: > > > $350,000/ year of Free Beer. An understanding of Freedom can't be far > > > away. > > > > While most people's understanding is a bit different than yours, I can > > only hope that the universities that are using it "for free" will kick > > back some developer time or some support to the project. > > > > -Shannon > > > > I'm thinking that the first time they run into minor trouble, they will call > the company that manages Moodle for help. Then they will likely pay for a > small support contract to get their fixes done more quickly. It is still a > good thing for those involved, since there are usually varying levels of > support contracts, and they are probably much cheaper than 350K/yr and the > developers get paid to keep things going.
And that's how blackboard got started, then built up to start screwing everyone out of that 350K/yr... strange how the cycle works eh? BB
