Let me guess... it had a 10-year warranty. See, this is why you need to buy the extended warranty for satellites. ;^)

MIT OpenCourseWare is hoping to partner with edX as some point. Currently our the relationship with them hasn't been fully defined. We might host the content after the course is no longer being taught or ... who knows??? Lots of questions abound... lots to do with overlap of effort (do we cover the same MIT courses?), licensing of content (we are almost completely Creative Commons NC-BY-SA- what does that mean if they go BY or BY-SA?), limits on the instructors/faculty (will we even get time with people working on edX projects?). Currently they see us as a complement to their courses as a reference and resource for courses they currently don't offer (e.g. need help with the course min. reqs? see ocw.mit.edu)... but will that change when they start having a lot of courses?

I hope this doesn't mean MIT OCW is going away but I guess it depends on what decisions are made. I can see a time where we are slowly whittled away by a bigger collection of edX courses such that it might not be interesting to have OCW anymore (why do free if there is no certificate?). Maybe we merge? In terms of fee only- we will never go that route. The only time that will happen is if MIT OCW goes away.

For me personally, I think the one of the biggest issues is around the licensing. I really love the fact that we are increasing the commons of education content. Free educational materials for the world! Sadly, most folks could care less. ("Why don't you show the slides?", "Why is some of this missing and has citation? I just want to learn this stuff... who cares what the license is or where is comes from!"). We'll have plenty of time to see how this plays out.

It's all still in flux. It's a cool and exciting time in education- that much is for sure :)

They got rid of my favorite flavor! http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/02/02

On a serious note- I hope they really manage to keep it to just these 3 versions. It should help with their with support and dev costs too (not to mention us folks in the field). Surprised they didn't didn't do this with 7.

Anybody else find it interesting/sad that the time limit on copyrights is longer than the privacy time limit on the Census records? Just a clear indication that corporations are valued above people.

And only on slashdot could someone WOOOOSH so bad... it was modded up FUNNY.

Same here... had a two year old multi-function printer a few years back, and found out that it wasn't going to be fully supported by their new drivers in Win7. Printing only. Not to mention the 'forced' maintenance cycles... 'fuser has 12 pages left on it' or some such crap. I still have a 20 year old HP LaserJet 5MP that still works fine- no forced parts/supplies to buy. If it start printing badly, then you replace the part. It's only on it's second fuser :P That's what sold me on HP printers for so long. Went with Brother Printers for my next multi-function instead... still have some 'forced' supply issues but their driver support is much better.

It's funny, I read some where AT&T had announced that they predicted that they would have to divest $8 billion in various stuff to make the deal go through. The funny part is that I read it as "we need $8 billion to buy off the politicians for the deal to go through".

Yup, reminds me of the short Whistle (2002). From Duncan Jones- the same guy you directed Moon and Source Code. Saw it as an interesting extra on the Moon DVD.