Well, actually I was wrong, it's not (yet) patented. Their website
says patent pending:
http://www.tengo.net/tengo_intellectualproperty.html
I don't know anything about patent law. I've just heard I a lot of
good reports about this way of doing text input.
Renaissance Man
On 20 Jan 2007, at 2:48 pm, Ulrik Rasmussen wrote:
That is patented? But how? It's basically a rearrangement of the
buttons used
on a regular cell phone.
Unless there's some feature that I've missed, then I can't see how
this could
be innovative enough to deserve a patent.
-Ulrik
On Saturday 20 January 2007 13:44, Renaissance Man wrote:
Would I be right in assuming we won't see anything like Tengo-type
free software text input on OpenMoko, being that it's patented?
http://www.tengo.net/
I'm also assuming that getting Tengo to add support for OpenMoko is a
trivial matter. But would be nice to have a freedom software version.
Renaissance Man
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