Microsoft Sets Tolls for .Net Developers

matsh writes: "Today Microsoft revealed the cost of signing up as a developer to .Net. Entry level is $1,000. Standard level $10,000. Custom support will cost even more."

Comments

Pay fees to use .Net services?

[Anonymous Coward]

They want us to pay at least $250 per .Net service used in an application? Why bother? Nimda installs for free.

They may be telling the truth

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

Developing centralized authentications system - 5 mil

Building and connecting the required datacenters - 250 mil

Preventing Hackers from gaining access - unknown (but don't worry, they didn't pay this one)

Having it cracked less than a day after it's release, which will cost million after million to your customers - PRICLESS

Stripped down version?

[imrdkl]

I wonder if they'll sell me just the exploitable bits? :{)

Re:This is .NET My Services, not all of .NET

[TheMMaster]

There seems to be a significant difference betweer:
projectliberty.org and
libertyproject.org
this is one type I really didn't want to make with my boss watching...

Re:Smaller developers

[javajerk]

> Interesting. What they are doing then is
> creating a bar to smaller (perhaps hobbyist)
> developers.

Gee... Like those 1337 script-kiddies, for instance? Damn, I always liked their cool tools...

Maybe now they'll have to charge for their distribution of Nimda v2.0. Would be a shame, because then they would get my credit card number as well...

> That just means that less cool stuff will be
> produced then I suppose.

Seriously: It *can* improve the quality of software delivered on windoze, because not every redneck cracker will be able to spread his buggy code. So it might be a good idea for commercial solutions, where businesses actually can afford and want to pay for the software they use.

For all others, they should have switched to a free OS of their choice long ago... Hope there's not software piracy going on out there, is there? ;o)

Anyway: it was long way back that I saw cool stuff running only on windoze...

Lars

Shock, Surprise

[IntelliTubbie]

Dear God, what are they? Some kind of proprietary software company??? Next I bet you're going to tell me that the license has restrictions in it!

Cheers,
IT

Re:Don't they have enough money already?

[STUPiDflY]

Microsoft is probably one of the richest (ONE of the richest? No way!) corporations in the entire software industry. Every few years (FEW years? Please.), they produce another OS and sell hundreds (HUNDREDS? Oh, c'mon now!) of copies making thousands of dollars ( THOUSANDS!? You stretch the truth, sir.) each time. They produce a word processor and spreadsheet that can only be used on their OS, and charge people for that. They charge a cut for the total cost of almost all PCs that are sold. Isn'rt it time they stopped charging people for everything, and realised that there are more important things than money in the world?


I'm sorry. I just can't stand to see someone exaggerating MS' position in the software industry like this...