Legal/Permission Question

[Don Clugston]

Walter Bright wrote:
> David B. Held wrote:
>> it is not a defense against patents (not sure if Walter has any 
>> patents on any D stuff, or if anyone does, but this seems like the 
>> smaller risk for you).
> 
> There are no patents on D technology that I am aware of, and I don't 
> plan on filing any. I personally believe that software should be 
> unpatentable.
Did you know, that the only reason why software technology is patentable 
at all, is because in the 1800's, some guy was granted a patent for a 
(paper) opera ticket that could be folded in multiple ways, and modern 
courts successfully argued that it was an algorithm.
So this whole situation exists just because some stupid patent office 
once granted a patent for origami. It's absurd.