As a music fan who likes guitars, I know the world of patents is complicated. The guitars are all "the same", in quotes, as a slight change in the headstock or body can prevent an ESP EX from infringing on Gibson Explorer patents. It is a strange world that patent trolls often take advantage of, something that the GNOME Foundation is checking for its image manager Shotwell.
The only thing that is confirmed right now is that the company Roothschild Patent Imaging, LLC (just with the name we already get an idea of what they do) has denounced GNOME Foundation, who are responsible for a lot of software available for Linux, more specifically the graphical environment that bears their name (or just the opposite). The GNOME Foundation has made few statements about it, but Roothchild Patent Imaging's complaints appear to be unfounded.
Shotwell would not infringe any patents, he would just use something obvious
Just like We can read in itsfoss.com, where they have taken the trouble to read all the information and to whom we thank them for their work, it is something totally ridiculous. Roothchild's complaint picks up things like that Shotwell is capable of sending images wirelessly (what I would pay to see my face right now). In short, an absurdity for which other companies such as Microsoft, Google or Apple could be denounced, but of course, those giants do not dare to touch them.
GNOME Foundation is not going to give up easily and they'll fight to stop this patent troll from getting away with it. For those who do not know it, a patent troll is a person or company that patents any idea without even presenting clear information about how it would be carried out. If they accept the patent, something that I imagine will cost them some work, in the future they can use it to get money out of a company, like in this case the GNOME foundation. Explained this, I hope that McGovern and his people win this lawsuit and we never hear from patent trolls again, although the latter will be somewhat more difficult.
