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Rebecca Fernandez is a Principal Program Manager at Red Hat, leading projects to help the company scale its open culture. She's an Open Organization Ambassador, contributed to The Open Organization book, and maintains the Open Decision Framework. She is interested in the intersection of open source principles and practices, and how they can transform organizations for the better.
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Griff, that's an excellent point, though so far they are *saying* that they will not charge for it at any point, from what I'm reading. Of course, even with open source, you do run the risk of acquisitions changing the game (*cough* Sun *cough*), so there's nothing entirely fool-proof at this point except perhaps releasing things into the public domain. I am also waiting to see if they provide a simple way to get your content back out of the system, because as we all know, barriers to exit can sometimes be enormous.
We have a great article coming up in our publication calendar on Moodle Flavors that you may be interested in. Check back soon!
Luis, I think the "free as in beer" only becomes a crucial point for those on miniscule budgets (especially in the developing world). Most of us expect to have an IT budget for these sorts of things, and in fact tend to be wary of the "free lunch" offers like Pearson's.
And of course, I don't want to slight any of the other open source LMS projects out there--Moodle isn't the only one offering great options for educators, and that's how it should be.