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Community has several restrictions for any business with more than 5 developers or more than a specific profit limit.


Right, which is why I was careful to state that Community was for individuals, and Professional was for multi-developer organizations.

This is in contrast with Apple, which requires you to pay $99 regardless of whether you're an individual or a corporate entity.


Yeah, but lets not forget that community also is relatively recent, having replaced the Express editions, which were worthless beyond learning purposes, as per license.


Recently tried to compile scintilla in visual studio, but gave up figuring out how to tune all settings in the IDE and compiled with nmake instead, the make file was very transparent and hackable with everything in plain sight.




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