An idea for commercial support for D

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On Tuesday, 6 January 2015 at 13:34:59 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> Maybe a handful of FOSS zealots would leave, but the resulting 
> commercially supported D would be so much better, they'd be 
> swamped by the new people coming on board. :)

If there is a market for a commercial version of D then I think 
the most sensible thing for a company would be to create a 
dialect and only distribute binary versions. Maybe a free edition 
for non-commercial use. The reasons for this is simple: the D 
community is not large enough to keep a commercial vendor from 
improving the language semantics. There is no installed base...

I don't think that would be a bad thing either... It would not 
kill D, it would just create a newD.