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digitalmars.D.announce - Symantec has been sold to Broadcom

reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
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!
Aug 08 2019
next sibling parent reply 12345swordy <alexanderheistermann gmail.com> writes:
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 of gratitude to Symantec.

 Thank you, Symantec!


What does this mean for the future of the D language?
Aug 08 2019
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
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.
Aug 08 2019
parent reply DanielG <simpletangent gmail.com> writes:
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 doesn't *seem* like things 
are moving as fast as they really are. But whenever I stop to 
really appreciate what's possible with software now, most of it 
was nearly or totally inconceivable back in the 90s.

Fully expecting to be gunned down by a Boston Dynamics T-800 any 
day now.
Aug 08 2019
parent reply solidstate1991 <laszloszeremi outlook.com> writes:
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, but because our 
 time perception is keeping up with it, it doesn't *seem* like 
 things are moving as fast as they really are. But whenever I 
 stop to really appreciate what's possible with software now, 
 most of it was nearly or totally inconceivable back in the 90s.

 Fully expecting to be gunned down by a Boston Dynamics T-800 
 any day now.


Sometimes even middleware was so proprietary that it took the 
community to reverse engineer how to interface with various 
hardware, some pieces of hardware were partly a failure thanks to 
that. An example is Creative's ASP chip for the SB16 and 32, and 
they learned so well from the events that they bought up OpenAL 
to make it proprietary.

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 
encourage other authors to not only write what is essentially 
glorified fanfiction, but to contribute back so other creators 
and even I can build upon that. My current candidate is LGPL on 
the lore, character design, etc, while end products using them 
can be proprietary.
Aug 09 2019
parent "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 09:36:53PM +0000, 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 encourage other
 authors to not only write what is essentially glorified fanfiction,
 but to contribute back so other creators and even I can build upon
 that. My current candidate is LGPL on the lore, character design, etc,
 while end products using them can be proprietary.


Have you ever looked at the Creative Commons licenses?  Some of them are
geared for just this purpose, to make art/media/etc. shareable in the
way you describe.


T

-- 
The peace of mind---from knowing that viruses which exploit Microsoft system
vulnerabilities cannot touch Linux---is priceless. -- Frustrated system
administrator.
Aug 09 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent John Carter <john.carter taitradio.com> writes:
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 bought the Whitewater Group 
and with it the Actor language and....

...strangled it.


(Actor was a lovely SmallTalk alike OOP language)

https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=LjwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT86&pg=PT86#v=onepage&q&f=false
Aug 08 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 08/08/2019 04:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-buy-symantec-enterprise-div
sion-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!


We thanked Symantec dozens of times for years as our venue provider 
during many Silicon Valley ACCU meetings ("meetup" in current language). 
They let us, total strangers to them, hold meetings every month until 
current organizers of the meetups spread it out to multiple other venues.

Ali
Aug 09 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent Martino <maser.one11 gmail.com> writes:
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 of gratitude to Symantec.

 Thank you, Symantec!


I remember my first real work experience. We used Borland C++ and 
some time later we bought Symantec C++. The fastest C++ compiler 
at the time. A thunderbolt.

Many memories...

Martino.
Aug 09 2019
prev sibling next sibling parent reply =?iso-8859-1?Q?Robert_M._M=FCnch?= <robert.muench saphirion.com> writes:
On 2019-08-08 23:46:38 +0000, Walter Bright said:


 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/broadcom-buy-symantec-enterprise-div
sion-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!


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... this all must be around 25 
years ago.

-- 
Robert M. Münch
http://www.saphirion.com
smarter | better | faster
Aug 18 2019
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
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... this all must be around 25 years ago.


I do remember meeting some journalists there - but I think it was Hamburg! Nice 
to hear from you!
Aug 18 2019
prev sibling parent Patrick <tengai650 gmail.com> writes:
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 of gratitude to Symantec.

 Thank you, Symantec!



For those who haven't see Symantec C++ product before, behold....
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WLMtgvoj9JPmZ8VPA

Just above "VERSION 7" you'll see the golden ticket! "SYMANTEC 
New Product 1"

Oh, and its still in its shrink wrap.... :)



Patrick
Aug 23 2019