Patent infringement lawsuit against OLPC in Nigeria

[Don Hopkins]

Jeff Keller wrote:
> On 11/27/07, elw at stderr.org <elw at stderr.org> 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 of AltGr, or Meta, or Mode key since... vt100
>> terminals?  A blasted long time.
>>     
>
> I haven't looked followed the links (the whole thing sounds frivolous
> to me, and not about technology), but for prior art one could do worse
> than the Space Cadet keyboard, used with Lisp Machines at least as
> early as 1980:
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
>   

Here's some prior art from 1978:

Double Bucky (Sung to the tune of "Rubber Duckie")

Double bucky, you're the one!
You make my keyboard lots of fun
Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!)
Control and Meta side by side,
Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
Double bucky, a half a thousand glyphs, plus a few!
Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight!
Double bucky,
I'd like a whole word of Double bucky,
I'm happy I heard of Double bucky,
I'd like a whole word of you!

-- (C) 1978 by Guy L. Steele, Jr.

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