____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 05 December 2007 13:12 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> One laptop per child finds way into India
>>
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>>| The one laptop per child (OLPC) project, a brainchild of MIT professor
>>| Nicholas Negroponte, will soon find its way into Indian homes.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Hardware/One_laptop_per_child_finds_way_into_India/articleshow/2583239.cms
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>
> Great news!
Wait until Wintelsoft fights some out-of-prison patent troll in the area,
preferably one with a patent on "green laptops that emit light".
LANCOR's Adé Oyegbola Answers Groklaw's Questions About OLPC
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| PJ: Thank you for responding. I think you misunderstand then one thing about
| OLPC. OLPC is a recognized charity under the law. Selling a laptop for cost
| does not make them commercial, Ade.
|
| Many of my readers have been asking me, and I hope you do not feel insulted
| if I ask on their behalf, but is there any connection or have you had any
| contact with Microsoft or Intel?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071203061340580
OLPC's Nigerian patent suit being waged by a man convicted of bank fraud
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| The Boston Globe is reporting that LANCOR, the Nigerian-owned company that
| has filed suit against the One Laptop Per Child project for patent
| infringement, is actually helmed by a man convicted of bank fraud. He spent a
| year in prison.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9827611-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Nigerian Patent Infringement Lawsuit: Scam or Shame?
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| After reading that story I went to look for the Nigerian Patent Office's
| website, unfortunately according to the WIPO (World Intellectual Property
| Organization) directory there's no such thing. Probing further I found that
| the Nigerian Industrial Property Offices use a @yahoo.com e-mail address.
| That was the point where I stopped my search for an online-version of Patent
| # RD8489 even though I would really liked to take a look at it!
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http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/keyboard/olpc_patent_infringement_scam.html
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| [PJ: I thought you might like to see the keyboard that LANCOR's thinks is
| being infringed by the OLPC. Here's the page for the entire world. Ah!
| Innovation. It certainly is an amazing technical advance to have 4 shift keys
| so you can do accent marks. What genius could ever think of a keyboard that
| can do an accent aigu? Genius, I say. Innovative genius. Nothing obvious
| here. So you can certainly understand why LANCOR claims it must safeguard
| with their lives the keyboard driver source code. For contrast, here is the
| OLPC's Nigerian keyboard. So different I start to wonder if this was about
| advertising a keyboard.]
|
| [...]
|
| ...Dr Aja-Nwachuku said he was now assessing OLPC alongside other schemes
| from Microsoft and Intel.
|
| [If you don't want a laptop from OLPC, because you feel you need schools,
| uniforms and chairs first -- not that any of that makes sense since the kids
| can sit outside under a tree and study with OLPC or at home -- why would he
| be considering the Classmate from Intel or a "scheme" from Microsoft? You
| tell me.] -
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http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php
Lagos Analysis Corp. (LANCOR) Files Lawsuit Against Nicholas Negroponte and
OLPC Association for Patent Infringement. Negroponte's OLPC Accused of
Unauthorized Use of LANCOR's Multilingual Keyboard Technology Invention in XO
Laptops
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| Lagos Analysis Corporation, a United States-based Nigerian-owned company with
| a subsidiary called LANCOR Management Limited, in Nigeria (LANCOR) announces
| today that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Federal High
| Court, Lagos Judicial Division holding at Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria against
| Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child Association (OLPC) and its enablers
| in Nigeria.
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=796745
Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC
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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall
| Street Journal.
|
| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
|
| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.
|
| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
|
| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
|
| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
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