[kictanet] Reverse engineering - or patent infringement?

[muriuki mureithi]

Walu 

Are you suggesting  that at best we can only be second best - we cannot go
beyond 'riding'  and using   public good  as a cover

 We have smart Kenyans who can invent  - what we need is a mechanism to
recognise and motivate  for innovation

 

Cheers 

MM

 

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@Andrea,

Reverse engineering - or patent infringement?

If I was Prof. Kamau, I would carefully ride on both - depending on the
convenience of the laws applicable and the demand for public good. Draw the
parallel with generic HIV medicines...

walu.

--- On Tue, 2/9/10, Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com>
wrote:


From: Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt at ratio-magazine.com>
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Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 12:40 AM

Reverse engineering - or patent infringement?

On 8 February 2010 21:01, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

Dear listers,
Prof. Kamau, University of Nairobi's engineering school has successifully
reverse engineered the converter box for digital TV.  Those willing to visit
the fab lab next week should register with Awiti in my office.  His e-mail
is nawiti at information.go.ke.

I am hoping soon we can reverse engineer the ipad so that we can use it to
distribute e-books to all kids in the country and avoid this theft of
textbooks.

Regards.

Ndemo.
Sent from my BlackBerryR

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