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by sergiotapia 4234 days ago
Yeah all this licensing mumbo-jumbo is what made me drop .NET from my stack and this is what's going to keep me from coming back.
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Is "Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps" really that hard to understand? The other stuff reads as "if you have more than 250 PCs in your company, buy the damn thing." The exceptions they make are totally in developer's favor and proof that no matter what Microsoft does some people will bitch.
If you have a grudge against MS, that's fine. But this isn't really confusing at all.
Have you ever looked into GPL? It's a tad longer than this.
Well, that is bound not to be the binding legal document here, there must be quite a long contract that actually defines the terms. Nothing to do with Microsoft necessarily, that's just how lawyers are.
"Microsoft killed my pappy. And my pappy's pappy."
I think that the statement above yours is trying to point out that they're simplifying the license.