> Pretty sure if you make more than 1mil per year you can afford to buy VS. The community edition is intended for indies, hobbyists and small enterprises.

$1 million in revenue is a very small enterprise.

$1200 for VS professional is one tenth of one percent of a million dollars, plus you get a msdn subscription, and if you're paying a programmer more than $62400 (gross) it's less than a week's salary.

I think you confuse revenues and profit.

I don't think I am? There's a million bucks a year going in, and then some big chunk going out, and what's left over is profit. What I pointed out is of that million dollars coming in the door, the amount extra that would have to go out is not that much in absolute terms, and not that much as compared to a programmer.