<div dir="ltr">I've been hating on Microsoft for quite a few years as their model was all about locking people in. HOWEVER, since Ballmer left and Nadella took over I've been plenty impressed by the turnaround. Are they "good guys" as in "humanitarian philanthropists"... no, they're still capitalists, but they are doing the right things to make people WANT to work with them. This is a great example of that. I have a lot of hope that Microsoft (of all places!) is going to do a lot to stir things up to the benefit of small developers.<div><br></div><div>Kevin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:28 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonjwolfe@anibit.com" target="_blank">jonjwolfe@anibit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Funny, I had thought about posting the same link here.<br>
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This is huge, MS has given away the "Express" editions of Visual Studio for years. Those were licensed for any type of use, including commercial and enterprise. The express editions had about 85-90% of the functionality in the paid editions, but that missing 15% was a doozy, no plug-in support, and most of the more advanced debugging features were missing.<br>
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The new pricing model is great news for us small and independent developers, the new edition is identical to the "pro" paid edition as far as features. You can use it for free or commercial work for companies of 5 developers or less.<br>
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In addition, the core and server API potions of the .Net framework is not only being ported to Linux and Mac, but it is being fully open sourced under the MIT license.<br>
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The only thing not being ported are some of the client side API's, like one of my favorites, WPF(A hardware accelerated, modular desktop UI library). All in due time, I hope. In the mean time, Mono supports nearly 100% of the Windows.Forms UI framework on Linux and Mac, I've used it, it works well.<br>
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On 2014-11-19 13:50, Shane Trent wrote:<br>
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