Who pays for all this?

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 18:06:49 UTC, Etienne wrote:
>
> 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.

Boost consulting comes to mind as well.  Though I honestly 
couldn't say how practical this is for D today.