__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 14 January 2007 08:03 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> When Is D Better Than C? When It's a Language.
>>
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>>| The D language is free, with a compiler and standard libraries for
>>| Windows and Linux. The compiler front-end and Phobos standard library are
>>| open source, and there is a D compiler for GCC, the popular open source C
>>| compiler. It produces compiled code, with no need for a virtual machine.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Of course, history is full of humble beginnings for technologies,
>>| like Linux. Linus Torvalds was an unknown Finnish college student
>>| when he first uploaded the Linux 0.1 kernel on the Internet in 1991,
>>| Hammond noted. Bright is well-known among developers for his
>>| Zortech compiler. That said, Linux had an interesting business
>>| model. Operating systems back then were expensive and people
>>| wanted a choice.
>>|
>>| The inflection point was when venture money and small businesses
>>| sprang up around Linux. "To make a technology viable, the
>>| technology has to be more than just good. You have to build a
>>| business model around it," said Hammon. "What's the business
>>| model here?"
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652176
>
> This question on business models is a very interesting one, since much
> free software built-up in a barter economy, rather than a currency-backed
> economy. This means that when people ask about the "business model",
> they need to consider whether the business model is even a currency
> backed one - it might well not be, and yet the project could still be
> perfectly viable.
>
> Wow - that's a major insight! It all comes down to economics in the
> end.
Economics are not only measured by a currency. At the very least, the
immediate possession of currency is no path to a healthy economy.
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