M-Pesa intellectual property is owned by Vodafone but first launched in a third-world country like Kenya through Safaricom coz of slack laws that could allow a mobile phone operator to carry out business in financial services. <br>
<br>Vodafone has simply partnered with someone else to provide the same service in a different market with a slightly different brand name.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 October 2010 08:13, Erick Njenga <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:eriknjenga@gmail.com">eriknjenga@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">It would also be very bad on their PR if they did that.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Steve Obbayi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:steve@sobbayi.com" target="_blank">steve@sobbayi.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">What copyright, you cant patent an idea, its the technology behind it that you patent.<br>
If they reverse engineered the real M-Pesa and stole bits of code thats another<br>
thing.<br>
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vodafone/safcon should slap them with copyright infringement.<br>
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On 10/17/10, Erick Njenga &lt;<a href="mailto:eriknjenga@gmail.com" target="_blank">eriknjenga@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; Interesting<br>
&gt; <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/17/m-paisa-ending-afghan-corruption-one-text-at-a-time/" target="_blank">http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/17/m-paisa-ending-afghan-corruption-one-text-at-a-time/</a><br>
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