[CoLoCo] OLPC SUED

[Jim Hutchinson]

On 11/28/07, phillip tribble <phillip.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/14954/olpc_sued_over_multilingual_keyboard
>
> This is very sad. How can we make a difference in a crazed patent money
> hungry world.
>
Could be interesting. Can you patent drivers? Isn't that just software
and the consensus seems to be you can't (well the OSS consensus and a
good test of this). As for the keyboard itself, it's exited a long
time. The only claim could be about putting non-English characters in
the same location but that might be dictated by logic (such as a z
sound being on the z key). There may be some underlying technology
that is a legitimate patent so we'll have to wait and see.

jim