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I agree with his general idea, I think 37signals said it better: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Fund_Yourself.php http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_
by hasenj 16y ago
I agree with his general idea,
I think 37signals said it better: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Fund_Yourself.php http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Fund_Yourself.php
There isn't much to fund anyway. If you're building a webapp: hosting is cheap and the infrastructure is open source; the OS is open source, the tools/frameworks are open source, the languages are open source (python/ruby/etc), the editors are open source (I don't need an IDE, thank-you-very-much).
Now, you need money for your living expenses, but you can finance that by getting a (boring) day job for a year or so.
- edanm 16y ago"I don't need an IDE, thank-you-very-much" Plenty of IDEs are open source as well, and Visual Studio is free.
- chmike 16y agoAFAIK not for commercial applications. But if it's for a web server application, how would Microsoft know ?
- edanm 16y agoThe express edition is free for any application. The pro version does cost money, but a lot of people can get by without it. Also, there's the Bizspark program, which means a startup can get pretty much every Microsoft tool they need for free, for 3 years.
- hasenj 16y agoIDEs don't make much sense for dynamic languages anyway. I mean, really, it's not a matter of price or whatnot. I just don't need an IDE to build something good with python.