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It has only been open source for a relative short amount of time when compared with other technologies like Node, RoR, etc. .Net has historically cost money wh

It has only been open source for a relative short amount of time when compared with other technologies like Node, RoR, etc. .Net has historically cost money while providing somewhat similar features as open source competitors. Its why MS was forced into open sourcing it. They could not compete anymore.

DarkStar851 7y ago
.NET itself has always been "free" (as in beer), it's just VS they made people pay for. They've had a community edition since VS2012 at least, possibly earlier but that's as far back as my brain goes. The Community edition is pretty full-featured, it's only missing some TFS integration stuff, some test suite stuff and advanced profiling. I'd compare it to IntelliJ's free/pro model.
- pseudalopex 7y ago
  They also made people pay for Windows.
- dogma1138 7y ago
  Before CE it was Visual Studio Express which was also pretty much the same.
- jetti 7y ago
  Community Edition has restrictions on use for organizations.