How is the D programming language financed?

[Eric Poggel]

On 12/23/2010 7:57 AM, Justin Johansson wrote:
> On 23/12/10 22:06, Thomas Mader wrote:
>> I would be interested in how the D programming language is financed as a
>> project?
>> As it seems the core projects at the moment are dmd, druntime and phobos.
>> All of these are in a very active state with multiple contributors when
>> judging the revision logs.
>>
>> I guess many of these contributors are volunteers but are there also
>> people who get somehow money for their work?
>>
>> It's conceivable that Andrei, Walter and others get money for talks they
>> give but is there anybody who can work on D fulltime without the need to
>> do a daytime job beside it?
>>
>> I know that Andrei works as a research scientist for Facebook but how do
>> other main contributors get their money?
>>
>> I wonder how people can manage to work on a fulltime job and on D.
>>
>> Who pays the needed infrastructure?
>>
>> Thomas
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> You could give some credence to your post that you are simply not
> trolling by first posting a reasonable D language question on D.learn.
>
> Cheers
> Justin

I thought his tone seemed genuine enough.