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Why would anybody do that? Maybe only when you charge by hour it makes sense because making something more complicated than Todo list is a struggle.

Maybe the typical one would have broken down after couple of hours?

But it is in germany - sort of police state in term of Internet. No thanks.

As a someone who lived in abusive relationship with a control freak this manifesto scares me.

It is not going to happen, because they have politicians in their pockets and nobody will investigate that.

I charge almost double if client wants me on site, especially if all the company is crammed in open plan arrangement. You either can't focus well or have to keep destroying your hearing with headphones and work takes longer to complete. If WFH make sure to do a walk in the morning and after work and go somewhere for a lunch.

Those people ruin it for everyone. They could rent their own office to escape their wives, but are likely not paid enough to really escape. Modern office slaves.

They are not. They sold me VS knowing well it will be obsolete in couple of months time and won't refund or discount upgrade. Absolutely vile company.

I wouldn't use M$ product. There is no guarantee that they either abandon it or start charging an arm and leg for use

It seems like author has problems with correctly architecting his apps and blames Django for his inability to do that. Only thing that makes sense is a tip for migrations.

Politicians are exempt. Seriously.

I have my own office and no, it is not "that's it".

It also counts if your client has such revenue. You could be making little, but you can't use community version if you work with such clients.

It is if client gets that money. If you write and sell your software to such clients you can't use community version even if you work alone and get paid less than a million.

I didn't see that. Was not aware of 2017 until it has been released.

C# and .NET is cross platform. VS isn't.

Pycharm burns memory, is slow and has a lot of bugs. But still it is the best options

Not if you sell your product to a company that have more than 5 employees or make more than million. Essentially community edition is for students and enthusiasts.

Monthly subscription was not available for me in October.

> but the perpetual, or standalone, license isn't for people who need upgrades

This is endemic to Microsoft. Every other software I bought had discounted upgrade options. They also didn't say "hey we release new version in few months and will abandon this one and you will not be able to upgrade"

Maybe I am spoiled by other companies. Microsoft is certainly not small business friendly. Their support also was pathetic. It took them couple of months to say I can't upgrade.

And when you decide to switch to Linux your VS becomes useless

Why should I pay for things I don't need? Every other company offers upgrade paths but not Microsoft. Had I known earlier they don't care about small devs I would have bought something else.

I am staying away from Microsoft tools. They just want to lock you in and then suck all the money.

I just bought VS 2015 in Oct 2016 and there is no upgrade path to VS 2017. Microsoft sold me legacy product and support says I have to pay again. This is still good old money hungry Microsoft that is trying to lure developer into their tools trap.