An idea for commercial support for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2018-01-31 09:43, Joakim wrote:

> Back when I first wrote about mixing open and closed source like this in
> my 2010 Phoronix article, nobody considered it a world-beating model.
> Maybe people now assume I'm just keying these ideas off the success of
> Android in using a similar mixed model, but my article was published
> when Android had only single-digit market share so I hardly paid
> attention to it, as it was only one of a gaggle of mobile OS's competing
> at the time:
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Market_share
>
> While I had heard of a few companies using similar mixed models here and
> there, none were that successful back then, so my article was based
> mostly on theory.  I think the evidence since then has proven that
> theory resoundingly accurate, given all the huge projects, such as
> Android, iOS, Safari, Chrome, LLVM/clang, using mixed models now.  Even
> Microsoft, who used to look askance at open source, has gotten in the
> game, open-sourcing .NET and several of their other projects.

Apple has been using a mix of open and closed source for decades. The 
source code for all versions of macOS, back to the first one, is 
available here [1].

[1] https://opensource.apple.com

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg