“That prompted over 4,000 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community members to rally in defense of the GNOME Foundation, raising over $150,000 to defend against the bogus claim.”
Rothschild Patent Imaging sued GNOME over photo software and settled once the community fought back. Then a former patent examiner challenged the patent itself, and every claim in it got canceled. The patent office granted something it later admitted it shouldn’t have. Volunteers paid to clean up its mistake.