{"id":2148,"date":"2007-02-05T23:00:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/02\/blackboard-makes-a-pledge\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T07:00:37","slug":"blackboard-makes-a-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/02\/blackboard-makes-a-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Makes a Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/02\/02\/blackboard\"><em>Inside Higher Ed:<\/em> Blackboard Makes a Pledge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After months of criticism that its patent policies had the potential to squelch important education projects, Blackboard on Thursday announced a \u201cpatent pledge\u201d under which it vowed not to assert its patent rights to sue open source projects or home-grown software used by colleges and universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Blackboard Makes a Pledge After months of criticism that its patent policies had the potential to squelch important education projects, Blackboard on Thursday announced a \u201cpatent pledge\u201d under which it vowed not to assert its patent rights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/02\/blackboard-makes-a-pledge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[833],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}