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Re:Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack by lucas_v on Friday May 08, 2026 @01:13AM (#48058837)
instructure/canvas-lms is open-source -- is there anything preventing universities from hosting it themselves?
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Re:Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack by dotancohen on Friday May 08, 2026 @01:41AM (#48059040)
Money, skill, liability.

That calculus is about to shift.

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Re:Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack by Meneth on Friday May 08, 2026 @09:55AM (#48063194)
A bunch of plugins running on canvas.instructure.com are proprietary, according to their FAQ: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/FAQ.

I would guess these plugins are chosen so a majority of user won't want to live without them.

It also seems these plugins "link" to canvas-lms, so keeping the proprietary would be a GPL violation if anyone except Instructure holds part of the copyright to Canvas.

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