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0 pointspryelluw6y ago0 comments

It has only been open source for a relative short amount of time when compared with other technologies like Node, RoR, etc.

.Net has historically cost money while providing somewhat similar features as open source competitors. Its why MS was forced into open sourcing it. They could not compete anymore.

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DarkStar8516y ago

.NET itself has always been "free" (as in beer), it's just VS they made people pay for. They've had a community edition since VS2012 at least, possibly earlier but that's as far back as my brain goes.

The Community edition is pretty full-featured, it's only missing some TFS integration stuff, some test suite stuff and advanced profiling. I'd compare it to IntelliJ's free/pro model.

dogma11386y ago

Before CE it was Visual Studio Express which was also pretty much the same.

pseudalopex6y ago

They also made people pay for Windows.

jetti6y ago

Community Edition has restrictions on use for organizations.

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