Raw binary(to work without OS) in D

[Mehrdad]

On Friday, 22 June 2012 at 15:37:16 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> You like blaming someone, or claiming someone has bad 
> intentions. Eg:
>
>> Which leads me to believe that whoever has this information 
>> doesn't want people to use it for D development...
>
>> The way I'm understanding it is that the message is 
>> essentially "If you want to develop your own
>> systems with our systems programming language, then you gotta 
>> buy it, sorry. Batteries not included."
>
> There is no need to deduce such messages from insufficient 
> support or documentation of a free product run 100% by 
> volunteers.


I see.

I would agree if you said it was nonconstructive, but I don't see 
how it's /impolite/ -- at all.

My intention wasn't to claim Walter (assuming that's whom you 
meant I was referring to) has bad intentions (I -- at least 
partially -- understand he can't just release the code, etc.).

The trouble was that his "solution" to the problem was "buy the 
source code".
That's not /bad/ intentions... it simply goes against the nature 
of D/DMD.


If his response had instead been "well, I'd love to share this 
info, but due to legal issues I can't", then I couldn't help but 
sympathize.
The issue is that I've asked this question a bunch of times (e.g. 
the one I linked to earlier), and _only now_ has anyone given any 
reasonable response at all for solving the problem ("buy the 
code") -- so it only naturally makes me wonder: is that the 
intention of promoting?


Again, wasn't trying to be "impolite" to Walter (or you or the 
others). I just find that the "buy the source code" comment 
(which, to be sure, is better than the nothing I'd gotten before) 
is sending completely the wrong message.


If you had any other examples for where you believe I've been 
impolite, let me know. (Feel free to email me if you don't want 
to clutter here.) That would actually be helpful for me.



> I think it does not matter

I don't...

> because the optimal reaction would be the same in each case: 
> ignore the comment and continue the productive part of the 
> discussion.

I do sometimes try to do that, though I guess I'll try it more 
often...