On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 08:02:12 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
With respect to those who hold one ideology above others,
trying to impose those ideals on another is a great way to
ensure animosity. What a business does with their code is
entirely up to them, and I would guess that even Richard
Stallman himself would take issue with trying to impose an
ideology on another person. What does that mean for D
practically? Using a close-to-home example, imagine if Remedy
decided that shipping their ENTIRE codebase in .DI files with
the product would cause them to give away some new rendering
trick that they came up with that nobody else had. And they
decided that this was unacceptable. What would they most likely
do? Rewrite the project in C++ and tell the D community to
kindly pound sand.
A license agreement is not enough to stop a thief. And once the
new trick makes it into the wild, as long as a competitor can
honestly say they had no idea how they got it (and they
probably really don't, as they saw it on a legitimate game
development website) the hands of the legal system are tied.
But that what I say !
I can't stop myself laughing at people that may think any
business can be based on java, PHP or C#. That is a mere dream !
Such technology will simply never get used in companies, because
bytecode can be decoded !
