D's open source approach

[jmh530]

On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 07:54:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>
> By the reasoning in the essay, I don't expect this to be solved 
> for free: the solution is for the devs behind the IDEs, Visual 
> Studio, DlangIDE, etc., to charge money for a streamlined 
> process. Why hasn't this happened yet?
>
> There are such commercial support options for every other major 
> OSS language, someone will have to do this for D at some point 
> for it to take the next step.

Something like Anaconda could serve as a business model. Free 
basic download, but then enterprise-level support and offerings 
for additional money.

It doesn't even need to be offered as a profit-making entity at 
first. Charge enough to cover slightly more than costs 
(programmer time, etc.) and donate the rest to the D foundation.