THE OTHER day we wrote about Blackboard, noting that this Microsoft ally was submitting code to Moodle, its competitor. The Microsoft booster tells us that Microsoft is now making -- by proxy -- the Moodle FOSS project increasingly tied up (with respect to Microsoft).

"It should not qualify as FOSS as all it does is link FOSS to proprietary, just like the Hyper-V driver that Microsoft gives Linux -- a counter-productive 'gift' for sure."To quote: "Microsoft is working on adding new education-focused capabilities to its coming SharePoint 2013 release, which could make the product more of a head-to-head Moodle competitor, according to some of my contacts. A public beta of SharePoint 2013 is expected before the end of July by many of us Microsoft watchers."

It should not qualify as FOSS as all it does is link FOSS to proprietary, just like the Hyper-V driver that Microsoft gives Linux -- a counter-productive 'gift' for sure. It's worse to have it included in the sense that it leads to embrace of blobs. That's all it's there for. ⬆