Patent infringement lawsuit against OLPC in Nigeria

[elw at stderr.org]

> 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 
(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 of AltGr, or Meta, or Mode key since... vt100 
terminals?  A blasted long time.

I also imagine that the folks who might be able to clear this up quickly 
and swiftly (for us) are constrained from saying much about it on the 
lists - their facts need to get funneled back through legal counsel, so 
that folks opining don't get interpreted as speaking for the project as a 
whole.

--elijah


>>> In any case, I can't see what their case is. Their product (as clearly 
>>> presented on their web site) uses two pairs of shift keys, left and 
>>> right sides of the keyboard, to access multiple extra characters. The 
>>> XO does not do this, as far as I can see.