Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Nov 2005 18:30 UTC, submitted by psilva
General Development Microsoft is offering Visual Studio Express Editions free of charge until 7th November 2006. Here's the faq.
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Yep
by on Wed 9th Nov 2005 04:13 UTC

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>It sounds dumber then it is. GCC, OCaml, FreeBASIC, >Freepascal, you name the language there is a FOSS >dialect. Then there is Eclipse, KDevelop, Monodevelop, >Shaprdevelop and so on for FOSS IDEs. You don’t need to >run them on Linux but they ARE ALWAYS FREE and never >watered down.

..and they're all half backed (apart from perhaps sharpdevelop)