Linux.com

"CTO Mary Lou Jepsen announced she was leaving to start her own for-profit company using some of the technologies she developed for XO laptops." Since hearing that Mary Lou Jepson was leaving OLPC to exploit (for-profit) the projects display innovations, I find myself wondering the technicalities of her CTO (employment) position with OLPC. Usually, when someone innovates/invents something while an employee, or on the company clock, those innovations are owned by that company. It would be interesting "Lisa" to know how that "given" was gotten around. Especially since the OLPC project was by and large seen as a community effort. If it is in-fact legitimate then fine, but the revenue generated from those patents could have done a lot for the OLPC project. Future contracts with individuals working on this project should take work-for-hire situations such as the display inovations of Jepson' team into consideration.

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