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Re:Apple cannot ban links to outside App Store payments, U.S... by nightski on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @08:51AM (#35699762)
This is just not true. It was relatively easy to obtain a copy of visual studio if you tried for relatively cheap. I know because I used their tools all through high school, college, and beyond and was actually rather poor during those times. They never tried to leech your revenue from you either in a scummy fashion later on once successful either.
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Re:Apple cannot ban links to outside App Store payments, U.S... by ascagnel_ on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @09:32AM (#35713397)
Microsoft was very active in giving free licenses out for education, but those licenses often wouldn't allow for commercial use. If you've never been through a license audit, their legal team would usually make you pay through the nose or suffer through a lawsuit if they found you weren't using the right license for your dev tools.

That said, they'd generally target bigger businesses over smaller dev-only shops.

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