Who pays for all this?

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 20:45:06 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 18:06:49 UTC, Etienne wrote:
>>
>> Programmers cost money, it would be nice to have a D 
>> Foundation where companies can donate and maybe eventually use 
>> the funds to pay for professional staffing rather than relying 
>> only on contributors. The D foundation can eventually grow 
>> towards having engineers on the phone to reassure some about 
>> development bottlenecks in the low-level software. Examples 
>> would be Mozilla foundation or Wikimedia foundation but with 
>> an Oracle or IBM type of service for support. It's an easily 
>> missed requirement in corporate decisions for reliance on 
>> software.
>
> Boost consulting comes to mind as well.  Though I honestly 
> couldn't say how practical this is for D today.

Well, Boost Consulting is no more so, given D's much smaller user
base, I suspect it wouldn't be very sustainable for D either.