Re: [Bodington-developers] 'Prior art' dates

[John N. <jo...@ca...>]

this may be relevant/helpful in time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_virtual_learning_environments

John

On 31 Jul 2006, at 12:04, Paul Trafford wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Am appending a couple of notes from Richard Treves from Southampton
> University re establishing 'prior art' in response to the Blackboard
> patent.  Jon/Aggie, it would be good if you could provide some  
> dates for
> the bodington.org site (history page at:
> http://bodington.org/history.php) and the online learning history wiki
> (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Online_Learning_History) at Moodle ?
>
> Incidentally, can anyone read Icelandic?
> http://sfjalar.net/?p=302
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>
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> -------- Original Message --------
>
> Subject: [rt.oucs.ox.ac.uk #982893] Message From Bodington.org -
> Boddington History
> Date:     Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:07:00 +0100
> From: Richard Treves (pen...@gm...)  from Southampton Univeristy
> sent the following message: via RT <web...@rt...>
>
> Hi, I\'m into Moodle, With the recent publishing of the Blackboard
> patent its apparent we need to gather information of \'prior art\' in
> order to defend ourselves against legal action (outside of the UK at
> this point, but the law may change in the future). Boddington predates
> the patent, your published history of Boddington is very useful in  
> this
> regard but would be more so if someone could add some dates, I imagine
> this would be useful to you and us.
>
> Thanks for your consideration
>
> Rich
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
>
> Subject:     Re: [rt.oucs.ox.ac.uk #982893] Message From  
> Bodington.org - Boddington History
> Date:     Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:17:25 +0100
> From:     Richard Treves via RT <web...@rt...>
> Reply-To:     web...@rt...
> To:     'AdminCc of rt.oucs.ox.ac.uk Ticket #982893':;
>
> < ... >
>
> The thread over at moodle.org is here
>
> http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=50597
>
> and there is a wiki collecting online history, I've added Bodington  
> (one
> d!) but didn't want to expand as I didn't have the dates
>
> http://docs.moodle.org/en/Online_Learning_History
>
>
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