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> Not for a pre-seed startup. In that common situation, software licensing costs can be by far the biggest cost you have.

In that situation, it's almost free-of-charge from Microsoft with their BizSpark (and similar) programs.



And as already mentioned by others, the problem is that the procedure for getting software through that (and other confusing programs) is convoluted.

For a startup, messing with that is a distraction when there are equal-quality tools available by simple download.


If you have personal experience with this please share it. The other people in this thread basically said it was great except for one individual who had a problem with a host that would not allow user serials.

> when there are equal-quality tools available by simple download

I suppose the keyword is when or if. I which case that becomes true.


> If you have personal experience with this please share it. The other people in this thread basically said it was great except for one individual who had a problem with a host that would not allow user serials.

Are we reading the same thread? Pretty much everyone agrees that MS licensing is convoluted and bothersome.

>> when there are equal-quality tools available by simple download

> I suppose the keyword is when or if. I which case that becomes true.

Good software can be proprietary or open source. These days, neither is better than the other overall. You need to make a specific choice in each case.




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