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Nigerian Company Sues OLPC
d0ida writes on the continuing troubles at the OLPC Association. Adding to the recent difficulties — the BBC has picked up the litany — a US-based, Nigerian-owned company has now filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against OLPC. Lagos Analysis Corp. claims that OLPC "made unauthorized use of LANCOR's multilingual keyboard technology invention in XO laptops." The suit was filed in Lagos.
The Nigerian Patent Minister recently asked for my help in transferring a large sum of money to the US. I'm sure that if I ask him to, he can make this trouble go away. He has offered a very generous reward for my assistance. I'll ask...
Ooh...now it seems he wants to buy the car I'm selling, and he offered me $500 over what I listed it for (it's probably one of the money transfer expenses I had to wire him $5000 to cover), all I have to do is send the $2000 difference from the cashier's check he already had printed out in my name (what an fortuitous coincidence) to his friend.
I'm sure with our budding business relationship he'll help the OLPC project out.
that would be pretty funny. We'd give 50 or 60 million OLPC's to the children of the poorer middle eastern countries. The laptops would promptly be stolen by extremists from the children. The extremists would also promptly kill the parents of the children and then recruit the children to become suicide bombers.
Then for the next 6 months the extremists would try to figure out how to use the OLPC's to post hate speech on the internet or how to turn them into missile navigation systems. In the end, they would only be able to figure out how to draw kitties in the included paint program. They're not very smart but they'll still enjoy the poorly drawn kitties.
... and in the DRM, bind them.