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This is not really true. It was relatively easy to obtain a copy of visual studio for rather cheap if you tried. I know because I used their tools all through
by nightski 4y ago
This is not really true. It was relatively easy to obtain a copy of visual studio for rather cheap if you tried. I know because I used their tools all through high school, college, and beyond and was rather poor during those times in the late 90s/2000s. I always managed to stumble on free licenses. They never tried to leech your revenue later on either.
- ascagnel_ 4y agoMicrosoft was very active in giving free licenses out for education, but those licenses often wouldn't allow for commercial use. If you've never been through a license audit, their legal team would usually make you pay through the nose or suffer through a lawsuit if they found you weren't using the right license for your dev tools. That said, they'd generally target bigger businesses over smaller dev-only shops.