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OLPC sued for patent infringement in NigeriaOLPC sued for patent infringement in NigeriaPosted Nov 27, 2007 22:22 UTC (Tue) by andrewc (guest, #49308)Parent article: OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria
The OLPC West African keyboard layout is standard xkb, using AltGr to access additional characters. The assignment of characters to keys is different to that of LANCOR's Konyin keyboard layout. Both key arrangement and method of accessing additional characters is different. Not sure how they can claim a standard XKB file is a reverse engineering of their physical keyboard.
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OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria Posted Nov 28, 2007 7:11 UTC (Wed) by dwaynebailey (guest, #49311) [Link] Interesting info. It seems then that they are basing this entirely on the fact that OLPC bought 2 of their keyboards. Since OLPC doesn't seem to use the Shift2 concept, although its hard to see how you could defend that as novel since AltGr has existed for ages, then I'm at a loss as to how they could motivate this. I guess mostly its motivated by the potential loss of income since everyone will now see a keyboard capable of doing multiple languages, which is the main selling point on the Konyin keyboard. Will they claim dead keys and such like as part of their design? I guess the fact that I've made a South African multilingual keyboard, that uses combining characters and AltGr means I'm also an infringer? I think not.
OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria Posted Nov 28, 2007 19:32 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] "It seems then that they are basing this entirely on the fact that OLPC bought 2 of their keyboards." and then chose not to use them. Sounds like SCO vs AutoZone, suing former customers because they are not current customers.
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