Lost a new commercial user this week :(

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So, getting back to this. What do I see wrong in this thread? It 
creates a clear message : you don't really want to be a D 
contributor.

Once you start doing it, all privileges of doubt that belong to 
"user" are lost and bunch of obligations suddenly appears. And of 
all obligation worst offender written by Gary is requirement to 
strongly identify oneself with a D project.

Let's get it straight : I don't want to ever be associated with D 
upstream. I have never wanted to be part of Phobos development 
team. Only reason I have write access is that last time I 
complained about issues in pull request management Andrei has 
suddenly given me write access and asked to fix it myself. 
Probably my biggest mistake was agreeing to do it instead of 
answering "fuck you" like Manu did.

And I find this comment by Manu absolutely outrageous:

> Surely you can understand that my desire to *use* D as a tool 
> is not
> at odds with my desire to continue to work in the fields that I 
> prefer
> to work in?

You can hardly even imagine how angry I was when reading it and 
amount of spoken swearwords that have never reached the NG. Here 
I am just being told in most straightforward way "I don't want to 
work on things I need because I have better things to do so you 
must do those things instead as you can't do anything better 
anyway".

Yes, there was an argument about long-term profit caring about 
users from other fields bring. Sorry, but D community is simply 
not big enough to afford such long-term investments. To make work 
on Windows toolchain of any interest to me following future 
assumption would need to hold true:

- it will actually help to attract new users
- at least some portion of this added user base will decide to 
contribute back, directly or indirectly
- some of resulting contributions will benefit Linux ecosystem too
- that final added value will be higher than original investment

It will take quite a while. I appreciate feedback about what is 
wrong but not _demands_ about what to work on. If kind acceptance 
of any demands is considered inherent duty of anyone it least a 
bit associated with D dev team I kindly ask to remove any access 
from me to avoid any further confusion. There is no way I will 
oblige to image written down by Gary in this thread.