On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:34:36 -0800, peterwn wrote:
> On Nov 29, 9:31 am, Karen Hill <karen_hil...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Nicholas Negroponte and the OLPC association have been sued for patent
>> infringement. The US based Nigerian company claims that the OLPC
>> association violates its patents on keyboard design.
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>> http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=796745
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> Presumably Micro$oft has its grubby little fingers in this somehow.
Whether or not they are involved, it just highlights how broken the US
Patent system is. A multi-lingual keyboard layout is hardly novel.
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