The whole iOS indie community is talking about the troll, and its letters claiming they want 0.575% of every “in app purchases” of iOS apps. Many bloggers shout out loud and Loadsys, this particular troll’s name, have but up a blog trying to defend its rights.

Since this is a legal issue and most people know little or nothing about it, me included, I found an informative blog FOSS Patents that tries to give some facts and another ThisIsMyNext gives background on the subject. So what Lodsys wants is maybe not indie money but may aim at something bigger.
I have voted against the Software Patents here in Europa before and mur.mu.rs concludes rather well my opinion.

And I can’t but end this entry with Ray Wendelich’s tweet: “And my personal thoughts: Software patents need to be abolished, and in the meantime: trolls, leave indie devs alone!”

So, run trolls run!!!

UPDATE: If Apple takes 30% and there is say 50 patent trolls with some obscure generalized patent claim taking the rest there will not be any software industry. Here is another one.

UPDATE2 2011-06-01: Loadsys have now sued the first companies and two of them are Swedish, IconFactory and IllusionLabs. In a conversation with @FOSSpatents Florian Muller is the Lodsys patents US only and therefor only counts for the income made on the AppStore’s US market. Here is the FOSSpatent blog about it.

... and you are a bit worried about the current review time on AppStore. Look no further than this site. It is made by @daveverwer on Shiny Development. He made a blog entry where he explains a little about the webpage.

And do not forget so submit your own times to him!