TDPL a bad idea?

[John D]

Did anyone watch Shark Tank on TV this week? Captain Ice Cream was 
rejected by all of the sharks and sent packing because he wanted to sell 
a franchise that wasn't. One of the sharks said to him something along 
the lines of, "a franchise offering is a package deal for a product that 
is a well-oiled machine... all the kinks worked out". Or was it the Legal 
Grind, coffee shop lawyering, franchise that they said that to? Of the 
Legal Grind, the sharks said: so you've been doing this for umpteen years 
and haven't made any real money and now you want to offer a franchise?

Why a killing of trees for a manual that changes daily and can be on the 
internet? What is the point of TDPL? To make money? I don't see any value 
in a set of pages that are a manual for a constantly changing and 
unestablished computer programming language. Can't yaz save the trees and 
offer it for sale on the web to anyone who wants to pay for it? It's easy 
to setup a PayPal website (though I think D is far from that if ever). I 
don't see this thing selling in bookstores. A hard copy of an already 
obsolete specification? If it's just charitable contribution from long 
time afficionados, why not just .org and ask for contributions and not 
kill trees?

"TDPL: we want money"? Msg me when it is "TDPL: the well-oiled machine". 
(Note I didn't say "the well-oiled MONEY machine).