An idea for commercial support for D

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 20:52:43 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> 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

I know, I was aware of it, but I wouldn't call OS X's 
single-digit market share or iOS's 16% market share in 2009 "that 
successful:"

https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/google’s-android-becomes-world’s-leading-smart-phone-platform

Also, they were notorious for having a mostly closed tech stack, 
and not getting almost any outside contribution to the OSS 
portions.