Moodle’s Sanctimony on Openness is Moot
Michael Feldstein,
eLiterate,
Mar 14, 2021
For someone who professes that he doesn't care about the issue, Michael Feldstein has spilled a lot of digital ink over the subject of Moodle founder Martin Dougiamas and openness. His main concern, he writes, is his "concern is with Martin's apparent hypocrisy, which is underlined by a tone that I read as sanctimonious." The context is Moodle's choice to block various current and former Blackboard companies from using the trademark 'Moodle'. His argument is that Moodle's trademark protection isn't really any different from the way these companies have bundled proprietary software with their Moodle offerings. And anyways, he adds, he can't find an open source version of Moodle's own MoodleCloud (though it seems to me that this GitHub is full of examples, for example, Moodle-Docker). I can't imagine there will be a favourable response from the community to this one.
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