This question led the discussions at a roundtable of the International LEARNTEC Forum on 13 February 2007 organized by the “German network of e-learning providers D-ELAN” and Learntec, a leading German trade fair for educational and information technology. Balthas Seibold was on the panel with Arndt Bubenzer, common sense, Beate Dippmar, GTZ, Christina Neuhoff, time4you GmbH and Thea Payome, CHECKpoint eLearning (moderator) on: “Open Source or proprietary software: Where is e-learning heading within in German Development Cooperation?”. More on the roundtable is online at the site of Learntec (partly in German) (UPDATE – Link is not to latest version of the site on Internet Archive).