Potential patent issues

[Nick Sabalausky]

"BlazingWhitester" <max.klyga at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ih55mp$2gtl$1 at digitalmars.com...
>I spotted some patents that can theaten current DMD implementation.
> Wanted to clarify things.
>
> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6185728.pdf - this patent describes 
> method pointers implementation (delegates)
> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5628016.pdf - describes compiler support 
> for SEH, also this is the reason GNU toolchain does not support SEH right 
> now
>
> Both patents were owned by Borland, right now, I believe Microsoft owns 
> them.
>
> Walter, could you give some comments about this? Does dmd violate 
> anything?
>

I don't think there's a piece of software in existence that doesn't violate 
about ten different software patents.