rSmart News
PHOENIX, AZ. (April 28, 2008) -- rSmart, the leading provider of software support services for open source applications in education, today announces the availability of the rSmart Sakai CLE 2.5 at the JA-SIG open source conference in Minneapolis, MN. This represents the newest version of the industry’s first and only commercial distribution of the open source Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE). This milestone release comes early enough in the academic year that institutions considering a new learning management system can adopt Sakai in time for Fall semester.
- rSmart Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment Uses Open Source to Provide Advanced Teaching Solutions at Affordable Cost
PHOENIX, Ariz. – April 21, 2008 – rSmart has been named winner of the award for “Innovation Excellence in Education” in the annual IBM Beacon Awards competition, honoring IBM Business Partners for their ingenuity, innovation, customer satisfaction and outstanding achievements in providing business solutions.
Michael Korcuska, Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation, addresses the Blackboard Patent lawsuit on behalf of the Board of Directors of the Sakai Foundation.
Greetings,
As you probably already know, we learned on Friday, March 28 that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a non- final action rejecting all 44 claims in Blackboard's U.S. Patent 6,988,138 as invalid. In 2006, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) requested a re-examination of that patent on behalf of the ATutor Community, the Moodle Community, the Sakai Foundation and the rest of the free and open source software world. The USPTO combined the SFLC request with a similar request from Desire2Learn. This rejection of the patent is good news for the education community and supports what we have believed all along--that the patent in question should never have been issued in the first place.
