How can D become adopted at my company?

[Don Clugston]

On 25/04/12 17:38, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 25/04/12 16:58, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 14:05:14 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>>> Python was widely used before Google "support". And I think Haskell has
>>> enjoyed corporate support for a lot of time.
>>
>> And who's behind PHP?
>
> ... but importantly, Python and PHP (and Ruby, and Haskell, and others)
> were fully open source in their reference implementations from the
> get-go, or at least from very early on. This isn't just important in
> itself, but has a multiplicative impact with inclusion in the Linux
> distros, BSD's, etc. which make up the server infrastructure of the web.
>
> It also enables all sorts of 3rd-party suppliers who feel comfortable
> including the software in their hosting provision because they can be
> certain they won't in future suffer from the commercial constraints of a
> proprietary supplier.
>
> D's reference implementation _still_ isn't fully open source -- only the
> frontend -- and the available open source compilers lag behind the
> reference.

<rant>
"open source" is a horrible, duplicitous term. Really what you mean is 
"the license is not GPL compatible".
</rant>

Based on my understanding of the legal situation with Symantec, the 
backend CANNOT become GPL compatible. Stop using the word "still", it 
will NEVER happen.