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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Last month, Movable Type demonstrated for us the dangers of proprietary software, raising license prices dramatically and killing hundreds (maybe thousands) of blogs in the process. This week, we saw a graphic demonstration of the dangers of hosted solutions as weblogs.com suddenly decided to cease operations, raising a hue and cry in the blogosphere, killing hundreds more blogs, and spawning a wealth of coverage, much of which is listed at this link. Such graphic examples (and those of us in education have seen many more such) and yet people still do not learn.

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