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ericanderton at yahoo.removeme.com
Mon Jan 8 14:19:28 PST 2007
BCS wrote:
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> The internetnews.com artical just went out on the ACM TechNews mailing list
Awesome. D's on a roll lately.
> What's the business model here?"
"Build it, and they will come."
Seriously, it's what the big guys did. :)
If a technology is good enough for everyone to use, and is what they've
been looking for, then they'll likely use it - provided they can find
out about it. Thankfully, it's still easy to be heard on the Internet
without having to shell out a megabuck, provided you have something
halfway provocative or worthwhile to say. Being able to say "It's c++,
only readable and with a GC" or "Java without a VM" is more than enough
to get people to read, even if they're only interested in debunking the
claim. After all, whiz-bang advertising is only good for getting
attention for something people would tend to ignore in the first place.
Also, a language is just a tool and not the kind you can charge* for
anyway. Look at MS and Sun. They put gobs of cash into their
respective VM-based platforms and they still can't capitalize on them
directly; they sell developer suites and training instead.
Walter has done nothing different - he built a better tool for next to
nothing from which other, profitable, opportunities will arise. The
same could be said for any one of us with a D library or utility that
plans on using that to provide a profitable service of some kind.
Ultimately, the only major difference is one of scale - it's still the
same model.
(* encumbering developer software, or even just proprietary language
specifications, with expensive and/or restrictive licenses, tends to
turn people off real quick.)
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