http://www.infoworld.com/article/3188427/application-development/free-at-last-d-languages-official-compiler-is-open-source.html

Andrei

On Monday, April 10, 2017 09:24:16 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/3188427/application-development/free-at-l ast-d-languages-official-compiler-is-open-source.html

Hmmm. This article makes it sound like all of dmd was closed-source rather than just the backend, and it would be easy to come away thinking that Symantec created D. :|

Well, at least it's helping get the word out that dmd is fully open-source now.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:15:41AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Monday, April 10, 2017 09:24:16 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d- announce wrote:
> > http://www.infoworld.com/article/3188427/application-development/free-at-l ast-d-languages-official-compiler-is-open-source.html
> 
> Hmmm. This article makes it sound like all of dmd was closed-source rather than just the backend, and it would be easy to come away thinking that Symantec created D. :|
> 
> Well, at least it's helping get the word out that dmd is fully open-source now.
[...]

Typical news source oversimplifying the issue.  But at least it's getting the word out.  No coverage is bad coverage, after all.


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