Potential patent issues

[Jeff Nowakowski]

On 01/18/2011 05:52 PM, BlazingWhitester wrote:
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> Walter, could you give some comments about this? Does dmd violate anything?

It's probably in Walter's best interest to not even look at it.

On the one hand, it's probably a crap software patent that the Patent 
Office has been handing out like candy, and removing basic features that 
have been patented could cripple D. Whoever owns it might not decide to 
sue, Walter's implementation might not infringe, it might be 
invalidated, etc.

On the other hand, if Walter is sued and found to have infringed the 
patent, and if he "willfully infringed", meaning he had knowledge of the 
patent, then he could face up to three times damages.