Re:On One Laptop per Child
by asciilifeform on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @10:42AM
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Is this the same Jepsen who "took the money and ran"? "The money" in this case being the LCD technology she developed - funded by our donations.
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The patents have stayed with OLPC.
"Pixel Qi -- my new company -- is now licensing my inventions from OLPC. This isn't an OLPC employee benefit, it's a deal I created with OLPC and Pixel Qi, and the benefit will go to OLPC and to the children of the world, lowering the price of the laptops, and thus allowing more kids to get laptops."
Re:On One Laptop per Child
by asciilifeform on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @12:02PM
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> The patents have stayed with OLPC.
This tells us nothing about how they will be licensed. They will be available for free use by the well-connected, but certainly not to you or me.
Since you and I don't build LCD panels in our spare time, I suppose that may be just as well.
No money from donations really went to funding the development of the LCD technology. Mary Lou invented it, and the manufacturer put in the implementation engineering effort. OLPC’s management and development budget was paid for by corporate sponsorships from Google, RedHat, and others.
Any of “your” donations were put directly into paying for laptops for children, at cost.
Your outrage is misplaced.