Visual studio community is free if your product is open source. https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Visual-Studio-2013-Community-Professional-development

Visual studio community is free if your product is open source. https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Visual-Studio-2013-Community-Professional-development-for-free https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Visual-Studio-2013... Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community? A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community: Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps. Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations: An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects. For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1MM in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.