Phillip Long's otherwise reasonable discussion of ways people can influence the development of learning management systems (LMSs) is scored with an unwarranted piousness. "We have an obligation to speak and write reasonably about new models for learning software." Well, yeah - but who was speaking unreasonably? Then I look back at the article and see that it is essentially about ways to commercialize open source software. So I don't know what his point is. But I think it's something like this: instead of fighting the commercial software companies, we should be trying to work with them in well-established forums (listed at the bottom of the article). Well, sure, but, but let's not forget that these forums are set up to promote the interests of the vendors and enterprises that created them. In such cases I would much rather be the unreasonable voice in the wilderness. That, too, is what sometimes saves a great nation.
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