Blackboard

Blackboard, a proprietary software company with Microsoft connections, started using software patents against competitors before it just tried to buy them out, including the FOSS competitors. Here are some posts that cover Blackboard.

2014

With Moodlerooms, Blackboard is Almost Killing the Free Software Project (Moodle)

2013

Blackboard Does to Moodle What Oracle Does to MySQL

2012

Blackboard is Buying Out the Competition

Moodle and Moles

2010

Blackboard and TSC Block GNU/Linux in Education

2009

Familiar Villains: Apple and Blackboard Attack Linux/Free Software Again

Open Source Subsumed by Microsoft and Blackboard

Patents Roundup: Another Attack on Free Software, Blackboard Loses Again, Yellow Beans Patented

2008

Patents Roundup: Microsoft-backed Blackboard, Racketeering, and Ray Niro

Use of False Promises to Attract Free Software Developers

Blackboard Gets Aggressive, Junk Patent Dropping Like Flies in Court

European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Corrupted by Microsoft et al, Its Lobbyists

Then, They Fight You… by Buying Some New Laws