- GNOME raised lots of money to help fight this case [1] - yet the lawyers supposedly worked on it pro-bono. So is there an implication that this money has instead gone straight to the patent troll's pockets, or will the GNOME project get the benefit of that money? Are there associated costs of the litigation that could easily consume the $150K?
- They have claimed that no OSI-licence-approved project will be sued. They have not prevented closed-source projects from getting sued, and presumably any closed-source project that makes use of open source components will still be sue-able? For example, a kiosk app that is delivered with a GNOME-based distribution would be completely unprotected, presuming they distribute this software?
- This patent is likely very invalid [2] - so it is very much not in Rothschild's interest to have this case see the light of court - so how did we get to this point?
I'm not expecting any official answers here of course, but the whole thing is exasperating
[1]: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gn...
[2]: https://www.patentprogress.org/2019/09/26/mythical-troll-att...