> They just had to agree to stop trolling open source projects with patents they already own.
That's not what this analysis says.
To quote the linked article: The ultimate agreement reached, as you can read, does just that: gives a perpetual covenant not to sue any project under an OSI approved open source licence for any patent naming Leigh Rothschild as the inventor (i.e. the settlement terms go far beyond the initial patent claim and effectively free all of open source from any future litigation by Rothschild).
So it protects against any future patents from this "inventor" too.
That's not what this analysis says.
To quote the linked article: The ultimate agreement reached, as you can read, does just that: gives a perpetual covenant not to sue any project under an OSI approved open source licence for any patent naming Leigh Rothschild as the inventor (i.e. the settlement terms go far beyond the initial patent claim and effectively free all of open source from any future litigation by Rothschild).
So it protects against any future patents from this "inventor" too.