A patent lawsuit against GNOME
I don't understand why software patents are allowed to exist. There's <i>nothing</i> novel about software. Every software patent I've ever read is "a system for X" where X is something generic like "taking photos with multiple cameras and sharing them over the internet." You haven't made anything novel there, you've taken a logical product of interoperable building blocks and put an artificial legal barricade around it.<p>It would be like Target patenting "a system for selling goods to consumers" and suing any other retailer with a checkout.