A patent lawsuit against GNOME
I don't understand why software patents are allowed to exist. There's nothing 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.It would be like Target patenting "a system for selling goods to consumers" and suing any other retailer with a checkout.