An idea for commercial support for D

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On 01/04/2015 09:31 AM, Joakim wrote:
>
> The notion is that individual developers could work on patches to fix
> bugs or add features to ldc/druntime/phobos then sell those closed
> patches to paying customers.  After enough time has passed, so that
> sufficient customers have adequately paid for the work or after a set
> time limit beyond that, the patch is open sourced and merged back
> upstream.  It would have to be ldc and not dmd, as the dmd backend is
> not open source and the gdc backend license doesn't allow such closed
> patches.

I don't think anyone has an interest of closed patches.
Building a point release with the bug fixed might be of more interest.