Compilation strategy

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 08:02:12 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> With respect to those who hold one ideology above others, 
> trying to impose those ideals on another is a great way to 
> ensure animosity. What a business does with their code is 
> entirely up to them, and I would guess that even Richard 
> Stallman himself would take issue with trying to impose an 
> ideology on another person. What does that mean for D 
> practically? Using a close-to-home example, imagine if Remedy 
> decided that shipping their ENTIRE codebase in .DI files with 
> the product would cause them to give away some new rendering 
> trick that they came up with that nobody else had. And they 
> decided that this was unacceptable. What would they most likely 
> do? Rewrite the project in C++ and tell the D community to 
> kindly pound sand.
>
> A license agreement is not enough to stop a thief. And once the 
> new trick makes it into the wild, as long as a competitor can 
> honestly say they had no idea how they got it (and they 
> probably really don't, as they saw it on a legitimate game 
> development website) the hands of the legal system are tied.
>

But that what I say !

I can't stop myself laughing at people that may think any 
business can be based on java, PHP or C#. That is a mere dream ! 
Such technology will simply never get used in companies, because 
bytecode can be decoded !