Nigerian Story OLPC

The OLPC project, to which it is pulling the epithet “long-suffering”, has been trying to get out of litigation with the Nigerian company LANCOR for the third month. After Lagos Analysis Corporation filed a lawsuit on January 2 of this year with the Supreme Court of Nigeria in its financial center Lagos, the case went to the US federal court in Massachusetts, where the company's headquarters are located. We are talking about the alleged violation of the company's patents for a multilingual keyboard design, which was used in the “one hundred dollar laptops”. Issue price - $ 20 million

At the time of the trial, all OLPC activities in Nigeria are frozen, and the Lagos court rejects the petitions to terminate the process. In a US court, a non-profit organization finally wants to achieve justice: in its opinion, LANCOR did not provide any grounds for a claim, deliberately hiding the required documents.

The keyboard of the “Nigerian” developers (the company's connection with Nigeria is still quite formal), has 4 Shift keys, additional 14 Latin characters, 13 accents and 4 currency signs. In OLPC laptops, meanwhile, a set of keys, quite familiar to every modern PC user, is used.
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