After reading through the patent and the suit, their comparison to Shotwell is ridiculous. In the patent, they even describe how Shotwell and other similar photo gallery programs that can share to social medial work and further go on to explain how their patent is different from these. The patent essentially is for a group of wireless devices to be linked together at say a wedding, when one person takes a picture, the picture is transmitted wirelessly and automatically to the paired devices, digital cameras, smartphones, computers, etc.
So, everyone's smartphones or digital cameras pair together and anyone that takes a photo has that photo distributed to the other devices. How is that anything like Shotwell?
Someone pointed out that the patent became active _today_. I wonder if they filed other lawsuits based on this patent as well? Would make sense that they target a bunch of small software developers who can't defend themselves in hopes of some easy settlements, but they rather miscalculated on GNOME.
So, everyone's smartphones or digital cameras pair together and anyone that takes a photo has that photo distributed to the other devices. How is that anything like Shotwell?