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VS Community limits are way different.

Seems like there's no limit for individuals, and the limits for "corporations" begin in $1M on annual revenue.

An even when hitting those "corporation limits" you can still use it if it's for " (i) open source; (ii) Visual Studio extensions; (iii) device drivers for the Windows operating system; (iv) SQL Server development; and, (v) education purposes as permitted above."

edit: VS Community Terms: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/vs2022-ga-c...



Still, I find the license quite alright for what is ultimely a commercial product,

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/faq

Even JetBrains isn't that into charity with their products, see recent RustRover announcement.


Rider is commercial only as well and not expensive at all. I guess MS compensates from other services (Azure) when you build an app with free VS against them.


Or the usual MS gain that they have been using for the last 40 years.

Most VS written programs run on MS operating system and/or Office so they get there money from sellinmg these.




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