Breaking News: Promethean is considering making its products open source

Why is Superintendent Joshua Starr pushing a plan to spend $8.9 million on proprietary Promethean brand hardware when even the Promethean CEO says that the company is moving away from this type of product?  

...EdWeek: So it sounds like you are in an interesting position where you're the technology company that is trying to pitch an idea around a less technology-centric classroom?[Promethean World, LLC CEO] Marshall: That's correct. I'd much rather cannibalize myself faster than somebody else can do it. I'd rather eat my own young than have anybody else do it. I believe in all three modalities. 

EdWeek: Would you ever consider moving to an open source platform?Marshall: Yeah, absolutely. That's our direction. 

EdWeek: And what do you see that looking like?Marshall: That's a great question. We're still working on that. But our philosophy is certainly open-object, possibly open source. A plug-and-play environment....

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New Promethean CEO Eyes Move to Open Source