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The question for institutions: if they need software like Blackboard, who will build it, and why?

Institutions are - rightly - turning to open source solutions to escape from lock-in at high licensing cost. It's eating Blackboard's lunch.

Relatively high risk and long decision times drive Blackboard's licensing costs up. Most of their revenue is from corporate institutions.

Blackboard is expensive - but it has to be. Long sales cycles and bespoke university requirements lead to larger capital requirements.

@bitoclass Yuck. I'm sorry! I think you're a victim of relentless cloudification here. Is xbmc any good?

@jf Cats would start their own podcast, but they don't want to deal with all the complaints about their tiny mewing voices.

@_tessr I've been working with tar for well over a decade and this might be the first mnemonic that actually works for me!

All the parking is rammed. World's smelliest flower denied!

@fj Luckily, as a startup douchebag, my ego is impervious.

I made this map a few years ago. If you can name all four places, you're probably someone who knows me very well indeed.

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