Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:50:46 -0500, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: > On 01/18/2011 05:52 PM, BlazingWhitester wrote: >> >> 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.
At least he knows it now unless he deliberately ignores all newsgroup posts containing the word 'patent'. I think only C# and D market the language with a feature 'delegate'. What's fun is that even if you're right and there's prior art or the patent is way too trivial, the patent trial can become very expensive.