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 From: kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mureithi=summitstrategies.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.k e] On Behalf Of Walubengo J Sent: 09 February 2010 09:08 To: [email protected] Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Reverse engineering - or patent infringement? @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 <[email protected]> wrote: From: Andrea Bohnstedt <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Getting a hold on cybercrime against women (cyber pests!) To: [email protected] Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 12:40 AM Reverse engineering - or patent infringement? On 8 February 2010 21:01, <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. 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 -----Original Message----- From: "muriuki mureithi" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:14:20 To: <[email protected]> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<[email protected]> Subject: [kictanet] Getting a hold on cybercrime against women (cyber pests!) _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/andrea.bohnstedt%40rati o-magazine.com -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com