DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Mathias Lang]

I've read (almost), everything, so I hope I won't miss a point here:
a) I've heard about MSVC, Red Hat, Qt, Linux and so on. From my
understanding, none of the projects mentionned have gone from free (as in
free beer) to hybrid/closed. And I'm not currently able to think of one
successful, widespread project that did.
b) Thinking that being free (as a beer and/or as freedom), hybrid, closed
source of whatever is a single critera of success seems foolish. I'm not
asking for a complete comparison (I think my mailbox won't stand it ;-) ),
but please stop comparing a free operating software with a paid compiler,
and assume the former have more users than the later because it's free (and
vice-versa). In addition, I don't see the logic behind comparing something
born in the 90s with something from the 2000s. Remember the Dot-com bubble ?
c) There are other way to get more people involved, for exemple if
dlang.orgbecomes a foundation (see related thread), we would be able
to apply for
GSoC.
d) People pay for something they need. They don't adopt something because
they can pay for it. That's why paid compiler must follow language
promotion, not the other way around.


2013/6/27 Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net>

> On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 21:29:12 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>
>> Don't call be Shirley...
>>
>
> Serious? :-)
>
>  By the way, I hope you didn't feel I was trying to speak on behalf of GDC
>>> -- wasn't my intention. :-)
>>>
>>
>> I did, and it hurt.  :o)
>>
>
> Oh no.  50 shades of #DDDDDD ? :-)
>
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