On 01/30/2011 08:06 AM, Heywood Floyd wrote:
Jeff Nowakowski Wrote:
There's nothing wrong with being in it for money, but it would be
nice to know up front and in what manner.
I've been meaning to ask, and I'll just take this oppurtunity, and it
relates to what Jeff just said:
If one would like to donate money to D, how would one do that? Would
it even make any sense? Or be needed?
And this naturally raises the question: Who/what owns D? Is it a
non-profit, a group of people, or a business? And regardless of who
owns D, is there any D-only organisation that one could support,
financially? I'm not demanding an answer, I'm just sharing my
thoughts.
I mean, it would feel weird to donate money to Digital Mars, a
for-profit company, that does all kinds of things, including C++,
right? If I was to feel confident in donating it would have to be to
some sort of formally founded non-profit legal body with some sort of
constitution like "to further the development of D" or something. I
don't know how these things work. I guess right now D is too small
and the legal cost of just maintaining such an organisation would
surpass any donations anyway.
BR /HF
The best thing for D would be if a large company with a FOSS presence
would use it. That means people would be implicitly paid for using and
contributing to D. It would also instil confidence in other companies to
use the language.
Beyond that, there is this site (I forgot the name) that allows people
to offer and ask money for certain projects. I guess that would be a way
to fund D projects.
Andrei
