Who pays for all this?

[Etienne via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-10-04 11:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> We're not really limited by lack of funds, but more by lack of focussed
> effort. If anyone wants to contribute funds, probably the best use would
> be to add bug bounties for bugzilla issues that they find to be
> neglected. The bounties don't really compensate at professional rates,
> but they do work as a nice "thanks" to those who donate their valuable
> time.
>

Programmers cost money, it would be nice to have a D Foundation where 
companies can donate and maybe eventually use the funds to pay for 
professional staffing rather than relying only on contributors. The D 
foundation can eventually grow towards having engineers on the phone to 
reassure some about development bottlenecks in the low-level software. 
Examples would be Mozilla foundation or Wikimedia foundation but with an 
Oracle or IBM type of service for support. It's an easily missed 
requirement in corporate decisions for reliance on software.