...and we beat them to it by three years :-)

We started teaching a course called "managing Open Source" offered both in the undergraduate and graduate programs as a MIS elective a good three years ago. Here's a link to the first announcement.

From the article:

"It's about time that United States elite academic institutions finally got around to not only using open-source software, but also teaching it. In the April 2008 edition of Harvard Business Review, Harvard gives its MBA students a taste of the decision facing every company that leverages technology as part of its business (namely, everyone):

Should I embrace or fight open source?

In the case study, "Open Source: Salvation or Suicide," HBR tags along with Evan and Martina ("Marty") Dirweg as Evan tries to persuade Marty that her successful business will become even more so with open source, rather than as a proprietary software/hardware vendor."

I suppose we at SF State aren't "elite" enough

Read more about in Matt Asay's blog at http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9916323-16.html