I had earlier posted a announcement (a forward from lug-goa) about the patent infringement of Kopete. The announcement sounded like the Kopete project was getting sued. At the time of posting it to the list., I was offline and so was unable to verify the facts.
Sorry about the mis-interpretations.
The correct news is that., the developer team of Kopete, a KDE based IM client., have decided to close down the site www.kopete.org in order to make the users from EU to talk to their local EU representatives and make them vote against the bill approving `software patents` in the EU.
They have not been threatened by anybody (till now).
They have mentioned the IM patents that they infringe just to make the readers realize how silly and stupid software patents could be.
However.. software patents do suck., and to hell with them.