Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-23 Thread Patrick via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 August 2019 at 23:46:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-buy-symantec-enterprise-division-201706500.html It's the end of an era. Symantec bought my company, Zortech, and now is bought in return. The D community, and myself personally, owe a debt

Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/18/2019 1:40 PM, Robert M. Münch wrote: Walter, you might not remember, but we once met at an exhibiton in Wiesbaden (I think), Germany, where you were with Symantec for the C++ compiler and we had a short chat. And I once tested a bunch of C++ compilers for a German computer magazine...

Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-18 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2019-08-08 23:46:38 +, Walter Bright said: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-buy-symantec-enterprise-division-201706500.html It's the end of an era. Symantec bought my company, Zortech, and now is bought in return. The D community, and myself personally, owe a debt of

Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-09 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 09:36:53PM +, solidstate1991 via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...] > Nowadays I'm thinking on what kind of license should I use on my "open > source media franchise" (or whatever I should call it), since I don't > want to keep it all for myself, and I would like to

Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-09 Thread solidstate1991 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 9 August 2019 at 02:22:11 UTC, DanielG wrote: Software is a funny thing. I'm old enough to remember when everything was locked down and proprietary, of economic necessity. Nowadays it's almost entirely the opposite, for the same reason. We're definitely well into the Singularity,

Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-09 Thread Martino via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 August 2019 at 23:46:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-buy-symantec-enterprise-division-201706500.html It's the end of an era. Symantec bought my company, Zortech, and now is bought in return. The D community, and myself personally, owe a debt

Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-09 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08/08/2019 04:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-buy-symantec-enterprise-division-201706500.html It's the end of an era. Symantec bought my company, Zortech, and now is bought in return. The D community, and myself personally, owe a debt of gratitude to

Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-08 Thread DanielG via Digitalmars-d-announce
Software is a funny thing. I'm old enough to remember when everything was locked down and proprietary, of economic necessity. Nowadays it's almost entirely the opposite, for the same reason. We're definitely well into the Singularity, but because our time perception is keeping up with it, it

Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-08 Thread John Carter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 August 2019 at 23:46:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: It's the end of an era. Symantec bought my company, Zortech, and now is bought in return. The D community, and myself personally, owe a debt of gratitude to Symantec. You were lucky... ...in another age of the world they

Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-08 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/8/2019 5:33 PM, 12345swordy wrote: What does this mean for the future of the D language? Nothing, since D is now fully Boost Licensed. But it's important for those interested in how D came about.

Re: Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-08 Thread 12345swordy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 8 August 2019 at 23:46:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-buy-symantec-enterprise-division-201706500.html It's the end of an era. Symantec bought my company, Zortech, and now is bought in return. The D community, and myself personally, owe a debt

Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

2019-08-08 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-buy-symantec-enterprise-division-201706500.html It's the end of an era. Symantec bought my company, Zortech, and now is bought in return. The D community, and myself personally, owe a debt of gratitude to Symantec. Thank you, Symantec!