On Wednesday, 13 July 2016 at 02:20:58 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 14:04:55 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> D is entirely driven by highly motivated volunteers. (this will change soon with the new D foundation)
>
> With the fundation, volunteers wont be highly motivated anymore. Fundations are real motivation-killers.

I hope this won't be the case and there are successful cases (Linux, Python,...) which are still receiving many contributions by volunteers.
However I am young and have not much experience, so I can just hope that Andrei and Walter find a good strategy.
After all bringing money into development shouldn't have a negative impact.

On Wednesday, 13 July 2016 at 02:20:58 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 14:04:55 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> D is entirely driven by highly motivated volunteers. (this will change soon with the new D foundation)
>
> With the fundation, volunteers wont be highly motivated anymore. Fundations are real motivation-killers.

I disagree. Volunteers will be motivated more, because D will now be more reliable as a thing they put their effort into and rely upon. Right now D is moving at relatively slow pace, because everybody works on it in their spare time. That also means they don't have spare time anymore. Somebody has to work on it full-time.