Is D not-for-profit or not?!

[Caligo]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <
SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 01/30/2011 08:27 AM, retard wrote:
>
>> I also doubt you can make
>> the dmc/dmd backend FOSS with any sum of money. If you wanted some
>> changes badly, I'd recommend donating the money to some democratic
>> community language without any BDFL persons.
>>
>
> I think that's just false. With money the backend could be bought from
> Symantec.
>
> Andrei
>

What is so great about this back-end (no offense)?  Why can it not be
replaced with something like LLVM or GCC?  Why can we not have LDC or GDC be
the official compiler?
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