An idea for commercial support for D

[psychoticRabbit]

On Sunday, 4 February 2018 at 08:26:54 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I think you're missing the point entirely: _this is the model 
> that the community uses to undermine the corporations_.

I really do think it's the other way around - indeed, it is 
probably too late - as corporations have *already* managed to 
highjack 'open source' for their own means.

Google is probably the best at doing it - having essentially 
highjacked the linux kernel, as well as deploying a variety of 
their own so-called 'open source' projects, in order to push its 
corporate agenda onto an unsuspecting world.

http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4050/3271

Facebook does it pretty well too.

Microsoft is still 'working it out', cause they're model of doing 
business came about in very different times ... but they'll 
figure it out soon enough.

And people complain about GPL being viral ... just have a look at 
corporate agenda - which is only ever about dominance and control 
(despite its deceptive rhetoric).

That's why I like D - because corporations haven't yet worked out 
how to highjack it for their own agenda - 'yet' being a keyword.

But some ideas presented in this thread will get them started on 
it, no doubt ;-)