<div dir="ltr">I've read (almost), everything, so I hope I won't miss a point here:<br>a) I've heard about MSVC, Red Hat, Qt, Linux and so on. From my understanding, none of the projects mentionned have gone from free (as in free beer) to hybrid/closed. And I'm not currently able to think of one successful, widespread project that did.<div>
b) Thinking that being free (as a beer and/or as freedom), hybrid, closed source of whatever is a single critera of success seems foolish. I'm not asking for a complete comparison (I think my mailbox won't stand it ;-) ), but please stop comparing a free operating software with a paid compiler, and assume the former have more users than the later because it's free (and vice-versa). In addition, I don't see the logic behind comparing something born in the 90s with something from the 2000s. Remember the Dot-com bubble ?</div>
<div>c) There are other way to get more people involved, for exemple if <a href="http://dlang.org" target="_blank">dlang.org</a> becomes a foundation (see related thread), we would be able to apply for GSoC.</div><div style>
d) People pay for something they need. They don't adopt something because they can pay for it. That's why paid compiler must follow language promotion, not the other way around.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/27 Joseph Rushton Wakeling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joseph.wakeling@webdrake.net" target="_blank">joseph.wakeling@webdrake.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 21:29:12 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:<br>
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Don't call be Shirley...<br>
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Serious? :-)<br>
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By the way, I hope you didn't feel I was trying to speak on behalf of GDC -- wasn't my intention. :-)<br>
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I did, and it hurt. :o)<br>
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Oh no. 50 shades of #DDDDDD ? :-)<br>
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