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Re:Ask HN: Industries Ripe For Disruption? by conover on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @06:40PM (#476191)
I couldn't agree with this more. I work with Blackboard's software on a daily basis and it is a aweful, unstable mess. The only problem is that Blackboard seems intent on sueing any competitors out of business using patents (see desire2learn)
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Re:Ask HN: Industries Ripe For Disruption? by Retric on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @09:19PM (#476385)
I think some of these have been invalidated:

http://mfeldstein.com/all-44-blackboard-patent-claims-invali...

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Re:Ask HN: Industries Ripe For Disruption? by ibsulon on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @09:07PM (#476367)
d2l is awful in its own right - the University of Arizona uses it and I'm absolutely boggled as to how this software was ever sold. It's not terrible from the student's perspective, but the professor/TA interface is abysmal. It reminds me of interfaces from the 90s, before we had figured out things like going to the next page without a specific button to save the current page.
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