19 Apr
2005
19 Apr
'05
1:50 p.m.
John wrote:
Well, they do hand out 120-day and trial versions of
many products,
including those. I'm surprised you've never seen them. They generally
offer these to the development and dealer communities, not the general
public, for obvious reasons - they'd be flooded.
Sure, but I'm not a dealer, and I'm not willing to pay to be a developer.
I can be a developer with free software for... well, free. And for that,
I don't *need* a dealer. I can completely cut out the middleman, which
is always a good thing (except for the middleman).
And there are much cheaper ways to get many Microsoft
products.
An MSDN subscription or an Action Pack gets you almost everything
for far less than retail.
With a license that says that you're not allowed to use it for anything
but development.
Eric