[jrs235]

Which is why they have BizSpark. They need to do a better job pushing/selling it. And yes, I understand many here on HN get that it's an attempt to lock in the business at a high long term cost for a short term (and I assume many HNers would say marginally small) gain.

EDIT: Was finally able to get the page to load... I see the author alluded to this: "Yes, BizSpark is a great program for giving free Microsoft stuff to startups. It’s like a drug dealer giving free samples to get you hooked on their expensive and now compulsory wares."

[rjbwork]

If you can even get them to give you the free hit. They seem to have 4 simple requirements met, but I've been turned down for the program even though I'm just a guy developing a single web app product on .NET who started a month ago and have no income yet. I've reapplied but I'm not sure it's worth it. I may end up porting it to Rails or attempting to get it to run on Mono.