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Re:On One Laptop per Child by jcl on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @11:31AM (#728077)
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."

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080107182525297

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Re:On One Laptop per Child by asciilifeform on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @12:02PM (#728112)
> 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.

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Re:On One Laptop per Child by bitwize on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @03:59PM (#728690)
Since you and I don't build LCD panels in our spare time, I suppose that may be just as well.
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