Slashdot | Nigerian Company Sues OLPC

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Slashdot | 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

OLPC must be doing well. It has become a target.

Slashdot | U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat

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According to a post on slashdot: U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat: “The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 1955) last month, by a vote of 404 to 6, that says the Internet is a terrorist tool and that Congress needs to develop and implement methods to combat it.” Here’s a link to the bill: H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (GovTrack.us) and you can decide.