Le 09/05/2012 23:31, Joseph Rushton Wakeling a écrit :
On a more practical level, the inability of 3rd parties to distribute
DMD could have an effect in limiting points of access to the software,
with corresponding effects on the possible channels of contribution. The
ability to scale up the number of distribution and contribution channels
is going to be increasingly important as D develops.
And even more practical : I can't bundle dmd with an IDE for D to
provide an easy setup for a user. I can't create a repository where dmd
sit in to make it easy t install on linux. This make it harder for
beginner to get started with D.
I can't even fork dmd. And this is probably the most important one.
FOSS typically work in a dictatorship manner. This is ok, because the
dictator HAVE TO do the right thing, or the project will fork and a new
dictator will take the lead.
Having a non open source compiler as reference implementation is a major
issue. Unless you are microsoft, google or some other huge company, you
can't afford that.
Walter is arming his baby by trying to protect it.
