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My understanding is that the software is not free, but that you have to pay license fees down the line, if your company is successful. Is that not true?
by runjake 12y ago
My understanding is that the software is not free, but that you have to pay license fees down the line, if your company is successful.
Is that not true?
- numo16 12y agoI believe the thinking is that if your business is still around after the 3 years of free licenses, it is successful enough to afford to pay for licenses from that point forward.
- runjake 12y agoThat's still about on par with wireless carrier definitions of "unlimited" -- not a good trend to set. Don't use the word free unless its truly cost-free.
- sliverstorm 12y agoIt is free. For three years. Free is not so rigorous a word it can only be applied to things which are free in perpetuity.
- seanflyon 12y agoMost importantly it is free for 3 years without any obligation to ever pay anything. It is clearly intended to convince you to choose to pay in the future, but it is still free.
- forrestthewoods 12y agoNo. After BizSpark expires you get to keep all the software licenses for free forever.
- zaroth 12y agoIt used to be worded like this, but not quite any longer. Now you get to keep a 'standard configuration' of licenses free forever, but if you have 100 instances of SQL Server Enterprise or whatever, they 'probably' won't all be free. I have to use scare quotes because at that point it's a negotiation between you and Microsoft, and they have no obligation to grant you all those licenses, but they just might I suppose.