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Firm of Microsoft's Former Litigation Chief Uses Microsoft-Connected Patent Lawsuit Against GNU/Linux (GNOME Foundation) for New Breed of FUD Campaigns

There's also an apparent connection to Epstein's notorious pedophile/child trafficking ring -- perhaps a subject to explore another day

Birds of a feather...
Birds of a feather... Nathan Myhrvold with Epstein



Summary: The patent troll of Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold has fed a patent troll that's attacking GNU/Linux and a firm owned by Microsoft's former litigation chief says it proves "Open Source Software Remains a Target"

WHAT do the men at the top have in common? Both are close friends of Bill Gates, the famous criminal with his scam/sham 'charity'. We keep gathering new and interesting facts about Gates. "Both of his “Science” advisors were Epsteinites," told us an anonymous source close to Microsoft, "one of which is shacked up with Steve Sinofsky, the other was the backup executor of his will. Even Nathan Myhrvold got caught hanging out with him. Such a small world..."



"Firm of Microsoft people celebrating (or leveraging for FUD) a lawsuit against GNU/Linux by a patent troll armed by a Microsoft proxy? If Groklaw was still around, PJ would have something to say about it."We were also sent the above photo. So even Intellectual Ventures (IV) -- the world's largest patent troll created by a close friend of Bill Gates -- is possibly connected to this pedophile ring.

Last month GNU/Linux was sued by a troll that this bigger troll had armed and supported. This hasn't been mentioned in a while, but here's all the media/blog coverage. Notice how nobody except us [1, 2] took note of the connection. Are they blind? Are they unwilling to research a little? It's not hard. It's right there in the public domain.

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, a firm headed/created by Microsoft's former litigation bigwig (we wrote about this before, e.g. in [1, 2, 3]), has just weighed in by saying "Open Source Software Remains a Target as GNOME Foundation Hit with Patent Infringement Lawsuit" (the words between the lines are, "FOSS is dangerous!").

"The GNOME Foundation is the non-profit organization that coordinates the development and operation of the popular open source desktop environment with which it shares a name," they said. "The GNOME desktop environment supports many free and open source software applications."

The USPTO granted a likely bogus patent and the likes of OIN plan to leverage against it prior art instead of 35 U.S.C. ۤ 101 (typical IBM).

In a move that evidences an emerging pattern, Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC, a non-practicing entity (“NPE”), has filed a complaint asserting patent infringement against the open source software organization, the GNOME Foundation. The GNOME Foundation is the non-profit organization that coordinates the development and operation of the popular open source desktop environment with which it shares a name. The GNOME desktop environment supports many free and open source software applications. Rothschild alleges in the only count of the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, that the GNOME image management software “Shotwell” infringes their U.S. Patent 9,936,086, directed to “a wireless image distribution system and method.” Rothschild Patent Imaging did not just single out GNOME Foundation, but cast a nationwide net in asserting the ‘086 patent – since July 2019 it has filed five other cases against various defendants (Magix Computer, Cyberlink, Zoner, QNAP, and Monument Labs) in Nevada, Delaware, Illinois and California.



Firm of Microsoft people celebrating (or leveraging for FUD) a lawsuit against GNU/Linux by a patent troll armed by a Microsoft proxy? If Groklaw was still around, PJ would have something to say about it. But all we have left is so-called 'media' or 'press' better skilled at diverting all attention from a Gates scandal to a phony Stallman 'scandal'.

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