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[kenny]

lol, I dunno. I don't think there is one. Perhaps he was referring to 
the idea that google uses python extensively and ruby has rails.

Those aren't business models though. IMO D will start to gain publicity 
soon as soon as mainstream apps and companies start to use D for 
development.

I'm sure I'm not the only person pushing my company's development to 
switch to D. As more companies adopt D as a development platform, it 
will become "normal" to use D. In the future I will also open source our 
software. Again, I'm sure that others will do this too. These sorts of 
steps are huge for the "success" of D as a language.

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One of mozilla's major successes is it's collaboration with google. 
Because of the sponsorship, mozilla now has enough resources to fund all 
kinds of development. Because D is not an application that will be 
difficult -- but if D can be used as an integral component to a revenue 
generating application, I think D will have a "business model" -- in the 
author's method of thinking.

Just thinking off of the top of my head, perhaps, if there was someone 
willing to maintain a patch to DMD that compiles the files into memory 
(writable,executable PE section), then DMD could be used by games for AI 
and general scripting. (compiled in real time) That'd be super cool -- 
like lua but better. If someone made that proposal to a game company, 
things could start generating revenue that way, or at least a larger 
exposure because of modders. I dunno.

Surely there has to be more ideas. I'll have to keep thinking.



Daniel Keep wrote:
> kenny wrote:
>> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652176
>>
>> standard article. Interesting thought at the end.
> 
> Re: the thought at the end.  What was the business model behind Python 
> or Ruby?
> Perhaps
>     -- Daniel