This would be an interesting case to see how well crowd sourcing to deal with prior art works. Hopefully patent trolls would take notice.
There is something that irritates me, to see how giant companies (in this case, Apple) will always have advantage over subjects like these which are, in essence, proving the other side wrong. Apple has a lot of fanboys, and as evidenced by one of the first posts in this thread, people see Lodsys as the 'bad guy' when they are simply fighting for what they think is theirs.
Of course, the bigger company has no issue with this as they have the best lawyers and could very well put high bounties for prior acts. Mmm...