{"id":275,"date":"2006-08-02T14:08:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T21:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2006-08-02T14:08:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T21:08:14","slug":"edtechpost-blackboard-patent-and-prior-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/08\/02\/edtechpost-blackboard-patent-and-prior-art\/","title":{"rendered":"EdTechPost: Blackboard Patent and Prior Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Leslie comments in his EdTechPost on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/mt\/archive\/000802.html\">Blackboard Patent and Prior Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find the patenting of obvious and\/or commonplace techniques and concepts to be grossly offensive and believe that I will now find it necessary to avoid any further use of WebCT and switch to open alternatives like Moodle &#8211; and to urge all of my colleagues to do likewise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Leslie comments in his EdTechPost on the Blackboard Patent and Prior Art. I find the patenting of obvious and\/or commonplace techniques and concepts to be grossly offensive and believe that I will now find it necessary to avoid any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/08\/02\/edtechpost-blackboard-patent-and-prior-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-education","category-social","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}