Lack of open source shown as negative part of D on Dr. Dobbs

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, May 09, 2012 16:04:14 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Dumb question: what prevents someone from rewriting dmd's backend with
> new code that isn't entangled by the previous license?

It's a _ton_ of work for arguably little benefit. What we have for dmd works 
just fine, and if you want a fully open source backend, you can use gdc or ldc.

- Jonathan M Davis