Is D not-for-profit or not?!

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday 29 January 2011 21:41:28 Jack wrote:
> Tell!

No trolling please.

D is a programming language. There's nothing about D which would be for profit or 
not for profit. You don't sell a programming language.

The compilers could be for profit if they were sold, but they aren't. All of them 
are open source, with the only snag being that the license for dmd's backend is 
such that you can see the source but not copy it and change it and whatnot. The 
frontend is entirely open source however, and both gdc and LDC are entirely open 
source. Regardless, they're all free to download and use.

You can probably buy enterprise support for dmd from Digital Mars like you can 
with dmc, but I don't know anything about that, and that's buying support not 
software.

It really doesn't make sense to ask whether D is for profit or not. Programming 
languages aren't for profit. Their tools may be, but you don't buy or rent 
programming languages, so asking whether D is for profit or not really doesn't 
make any sense.

- Jonathan M Davis