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Basically, that means you won't develop for any proprietary platform.

• plinkplonk 17y ago
  "Basically, that means you won't develop for a proprietary platform." Last I heard, you didn't have to pay Microsoft to write a "ToDo List" app for Win XP (or a Win ME phone).
  • tjogin 17y ago
    You don't, but enrolling in any kind of developer program, or buying any kind of developer software, is going to cost north of $99 a year, which any developer hoping to make even that amount of money will do. The situation for iPhone developers have a lot of well publicized flaws, but the cost of participating in the developer program (which includes development software and publishing in the App Store) is not one of them.
    • bmj 17y ago
      You don't need to enroll in a dev program. You can develop .NET apps with freely available tools if you don't want to spend money on Visual Studio. And jwz isn't trying to make money--he just wants to make his apps available for others to use.
      • tjogin 17y ago
        Considering the prevalence of todo-list and flashlight apps, it doesn't seem like the $99 is holding anybody back.
    • Quarrelsome 17y ago
      I develop .NET I can use notepad and csc for free or I can buy tools from MS that save me time. Halfway house is SharpDevelop which is free but not as good as Visual Studio. I don't mind paying for cool tools but it sucks to have to pay to release software.