Under their license you can not legally distribute what you have 'compiled' with the beta software, nor can you use it in a buisness enviroment . Even so you can develop a full product in a hobby setting using them and have someone with the full software 'compile' the distributable for you. Either way for Mod developers wanting to get up to speed as quickly and cheaply as possible it definatly is a route to take.
Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews wrote:
Yea well, I'd be surprised if you were legally allowed to distribute whatever you create with your beta software, seeing as you can't do that with educational versions of older software still.
- Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews
Lyme wrote:
Microsoft doesn't really make money off their development tools. Traditionally Microsoft would only try to break even with some of their development costs for the tools. Microsoft also knows that by releasing this slightly slimmed down version of their development enviroment they can get people to develop for Windows and more importantly run windows. Don't think Microsoft is neive in what they do. As another point Microsoft removed ATL and MFC from the beta C++, however don't think that they didn't think that people would use the .net constructs instead.
Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews wrote:
Well it'd be stupid of Microsoft to release a "beta" of software that costs ~1000 dollars brand new and let people develop software with it for their own purposes... It is, after all, just an extended test :/
- Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews
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