Re:Gnome patent troll stripped of patent rights
by tssva on Friday April 29, 2022 @02:05PM
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I'm not confusing a lone developer with the GNOME Foundation. I was referencing statements made in a GNOME Foundation press release.
Re:Gnome patent troll stripped of patent rights
by throwaway82652 on Friday April 29, 2022 @03:09PM
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I have no idea which press release you're talking about, every search I did on the subject turned up this news article or another one with very similar content, where there's no official press release: https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/10/system76_gnome_deskto...
Searching through the foundation's news posts shows only one press release about system76, which is positive in tone and isn't related to any argument: https://foundation.gnome.org/?s=system76
If you could post this press release so I could read it, that would be great. Maybe I'm just stupid and I missed something obvious. But I think you may be misremembering this.
I won't comment on the issue itself, but the way you're framing this is total and complete nonsense. GNOME didn't have a "take", it was a blog written independently by one developer. You're confusing the Foundation itself with random developers. AFAIK System 76 also never put out any official statements, it was again more random unofficial statements by random employees. I would actually be more disappointed if either of these organizations' management was wasting their time making official statements on pointless open source drama.