Helping Vendor or Sneaky Vendor?

I often talk about the things going on with the Blackboard learning management system (LMS) Learn, the Blackboard (Bb) company, or one of the Blackboard partners. I proudly was introduced to blogging by Blackboard through their VIP Blogger contest. Having used Blackboard on the student side, faculty side, and administrative support side; I feel I know the product well and watched the company