nick knouf schrieb:
I don't know Nigerian reverse-engineering laws so I don't know if the
case has any merit, but is there any word about how this will affect
the XO in Nigeria?
DEAR MR. KNOUF,
MY NAME IS KING OYEGBOLA. I COME FROM NIGERIA AND INVENTED THE THIRD
AND FOURTH SHIFT KEY FOR
I wrote KING OYEGBOLA and he called me back immediately.
He says he is running a program called Bribe One, Get One.
For the price of bribing two government officials, I can have one United
States government official in my own pocket, and a government official
in an impoverished developing
On 11/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I imagine that if the XO is in violation, a lot of other products
(hardware and software) are also in violation. Shift keys are modifiers,
yes - they help you make Big Letters. The case sounds fairly ridiculous;
folks've had some form
:
Just saw a link to this today, about a patent infringement lawsuit
filed in Nigeria against OLPC:
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=796745
From the article:
'LANCOR's lawsuit alleges that OLPC purchased two KONYIN Multilingual
Keyboard models (KONYIN Nigeria Multilingual Keyboard
José Antonio wrote:
There is no intelectual property.
Patents and copyright are just monopoly granted by state. Period.
As any monopoly, this kind of monopoly cause damages to society.
Why Exxon and AtT can't do monopoly, and Micorsoft and Warner can?
In any case, I can't see what
Call me too wary, but discussing these things in the open on the
developer's list may
provide information that lawyers may further find as fodder.
nick knouf wrote:
On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Richard Dobson wrote:
José Antonio wrote:
There is no intelectual property.
Patents
Subject: Re: Patent infringement lawsuit against OLPC in Nigeria
Call me too wary, but discussing these things in the open on the
developer's list may provide information that lawyers may further find
as fodder.
I imagine that if the XO is in violation, a lot of other products
Fascinating...
This business is run out of a house just 19 miles from OLPC.
1 Timber Lane, Natick, MA, 01760, USA
phone 339-987-9249, fax 508-647-4702
Any guesses why he didn't just file in Massachusetts?
I'm thinking that money in the right hands could get you
a pre-dated patent or an easy win
