[brlug-general] LSU and Moodle

[Fernando Vilas]

On Monday 05 November 2007 11:36:40 Shannon Roddy wrote:
> On 11/4/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:
> > $350,000/ year of Free Beer.  An understanding of Freedom can't be far
> > away.
>
> While most people's understanding is a bit different than yours, I can
> only hope that the universities that are using it "for free" will kick
> back some developer time or some support to the project.
>
> -Shannon
>

I'm thinking that the first time they run into minor trouble, they will call 
the company that manages Moodle for help.  Then they will likely pay for a 
small support contract to get their fixes done more quickly.  It is still a 
good thing for those involved, since there are usually varying levels of 
support contracts, and they are probably much cheaper than 350K/yr and the 
developers get paid to keep things going.

With the way that LSU's intellectual property rules work, I can't imagine LSU 
giving developer time to the project.  I hope I'm wrong on this... :-)

-- 
Thanks,
Fernando Vilas
fvilas at iname.com
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