I'm writing an article today following Dimitri O. Paun's talk at the Wine Developer conference in Stuttgart. He said that Wine development is restricted due to a Borland software patent, which prevents an important feature from being added to GCC.
The Borland patent is a patent for standard exception handling http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL &p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,628,016.WKU.&OS=PN/5,628, 016&RS=PN/5,628,016 The FFII has written an article on this: http://wiki.ffii.org/WineConf050501En I am keen to find out more about this issue. Does anyone know about this issue? I can see there were discussions on this issue in 2003 (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-10/msg00840.html). What has happened since on this issue? Thanks for your help. Regards, Ingrid Ingrid Marson Reporter ZDNet UK www.zdnet.co.uk T: +44 (0)20 7903 6835
