D beyond the specs

[greentea]

On Saturday, 17 March 2018 at 20:17:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

> ...  A small group, drawn to do something for intrinsic reasons 
> starts to create something.  And they get no face because it 
> seems completely unrealistic and in truth the odds are very 
> much against success.  But they create something excellent 
> because they care about intrinsic reasons and not social 
> factors.  And some people start to take notice, but it's still 
> more or less a fringe but interesting project.  And it stays 
> that way until the world changes, and changes in a way that 
> looks obvious with hindsight but nobody really expected at the 
> time.  At that point what's important changes and the project 
> starts to become popular.  Then people more ambitiously than 
> intrinsically motivated start to be drawn by what's now obvious 
> and the project starts to be popular, and yet with that 
> popularity comes a change in its nature and sometimes people 
> think back to the old days. ...

Just like the Linux project - started by a Finnish guy.