On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 20:45:06 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 18:06:49 UTC, Etienne wrote:
Programmers cost money, it would be nice to have a D
Foundation where companies can donate and maybe eventually use
the funds to pay for professional staffing rather than relying
only on contributors. The D foundation can eventually grow
towards having engineers on the phone to reassure some about
development bottlenecks in the low-level software. Examples
would be Mozilla foundation or Wikimedia foundation but with
an Oracle or IBM type of service for support. It's an easily
missed requirement in corporate decisions for reliance on
software.
Boost consulting comes to mind as well. Though I honestly
couldn't say how practical this is for D today.
Well, Boost Consulting is no more so, given D's much smaller user
base, I suspect it wouldn't be very sustainable for D either.
