Ohio-based DigiLore has released enhancements to make the Moodle open source & free learning management system compliant with the defence sector’s SCORM (sharable content object reference model). This combination of private sector development with an open source community platform should be a winning combination and I think that we will see more of this model in the LMS/LCMS field. Basically, it’s cheaper and more effective to only develop the specific modules that you cannot do without, and then use open source modules to handle the more generic tasks.
While not disagreeing withWhile not disagreeing with your basic conclusion, in this case the private sector company went ahead and duplicated work that the main developers had already done, because they didn’t communicate what they were doing with the main developers.
Thanks for the note Martin [note to readers, Martin is the creator of Moodle]. It seems that this private sector company has to learn how to be a good member of the community so that they can profit from membership. Bit of a waste of time for them ;-)