[SGVLUG] OT - MS VS studio free to attendees of launch event

John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com
Thu Jan 24 02:29:54 PST 2008


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matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> writes:

> > Whaddaya mean, FREE?! [..]

> hmmmm.... well, free as in beer free...

> also, I was thinking that VS could be used to make
> OSS licensed original code... while MS may not like
> GPL, I don't recall anything that would restrict me
> from making original SW under GPL or other OSS terms.

Can you do this under Xen, the Linux Hypervisor?  Remember, Xen hosts
even grease-ball operating systems like Winduhs.

> I would also expect some of us here will need to
> support clients using MS products... as such it would be
> nice to not have to pay for it, and also it would be
> nice to run it under a VM on a linux system.. thus
> windows server/sql 2008 should be a nice thing to have
> (especially since I rarely expect to run it... )

(Maybe you're talking about Xen here -- it's not clear.)

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