OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria [LWN.net]

OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria

Posted Nov 28, 2007 0:18 UTC (Wed) by and (subscriber, #2883)
Parent article: OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria

> and illegal reverse engineering of its keyboard driver source codes 

hm. I wonder which kind of source code needs to be _reverse engineered_. 
To me this episode smells suspiciously like the same nigeria connection 
otherwise famous for some heartshaking stories about 
former-cronies-of-the-toppled-regime-now-victims-of-the-new-one...

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OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria

Posted Nov 28, 2007 4:09 UTC (Wed) by Niels (guest, #49310) [Link]

Isn't Nigeria one of the countries that Intel and Microsoft chose to push their Classmate
OLPC-clone? Perhaps a little corporate espionage going on here? Wouldn't be the first time a
front company was used for this sort of thing.

OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria

Posted Nov 28, 2007 14:12 UTC (Wed) by meuh (subscriber, #22042) [Link]

Classmate PC are made by Intel, Operating System is provided by Mandriva, for most of the
computers.

See http://lwn.net/Articles/256517/
Then http://lwn.net/Articles/256723/
Finally http://lwn.net/Articles/257992/

OLPC sued for patent infringement in Nigeria

Posted Nov 28, 2007 16:37 UTC (Wed) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]

Yes, there was an item on the world service last night about the OLPC on the one hand and the
Classmate on the other, both of which are being trialled now in Nigeria. They contrasted the
'Charity' and 'Commercial' approaches, without mentioning the OS or free software once (that I
noticed). An interesting piece nevertheless.