Uphill

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 09:23:07 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 28/05/2015 8:55 p.m., Chris wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 19:35:35 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 May 2015 13:23:16 +0000, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
>>>
>>>> Only when I can sell D to customers that put money into this 
>>>> kind of
>>>> stuff
>>>
>>> if customers are deciding which technologies to use... ok 
>>> then, they can
>>> do their work without my help, 'cause they are so 
>>> knowledgeable.
>>
>> It's funny that people spend millions on technologies that 
>> makes
>> mediocre or crap languages better, but they would never invest 
>> in
>> something like D, because they dread the investment. I think 
>> it's
>> because D doesn't have a price tag attached to it. "If it's 
>> for free, it
>> must be sh*t", I often hear people say. Maybe we should have a 
>> D
>> Enterprise Edition (DEE) and sell it for $1,000. Believe me, 
>> people
>> would take to it like ducks take to water.
>
> Or we put together a D consultancy firm, perhaps as part of D's 
> future foundation?
>
> Starting at e.g. bug fixes ext. with price tag ranges on them.
> Perhaps even a price tag on working on DIP's.

Charge them and they will come! :-)