Re: Standing behind GNOME Foundation against Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC?

From	Neil McGovern <neilm@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Re: Standing behind GNOME Foundation against Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC?
Date	2019-10-22 11:30 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 02:29:38PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 12:25:53AM +0100, Andy Simpkins wrote:
> > Where can I contribute to the war chest in order to help fund fighting this?
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 09:03:37PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> > Aye aye! We should distribute a fundraising site more widely among Debian
> > for anyone in our community who is willing to donate to the collective
> > defense of our tools.
> 
> At the point when we require significant funds to fight this, I'll
> address it. At the moment, we're very much in the preliminary stages of
> this legal case. More generally, I'm talking to other folk around how to
> make sure that GNOME and free software isn't attacked in future.
> 
> Apologies for not being able to provide more clarity at this stage, I'm
> sure you'll understand why!
> 

For those not following closely, we've now filed our motion to dismiss,
response and counterclaim:
https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/

Our strategy is to not only get the case dropped or dismissed, but to
take out the patent as well. We do need funds to do this, and for those
who are kind enough to donate, please do so at
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund

If you can't, please help spread the word.

Neil
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