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VS2016 community supports static linking too. You're not missing out on anything, really.

Originally Posted by R_W_B

Or possibly they are just "nice" guys (lol).

If you study the history of Bill Gates and Microsoft, you'll see that they are not "nice" guys. The community edition is only for individuals and businesses under the following criteria:

Originally Posted by Microsoft

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios:
In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

See the Visual Studio Community Edition page for more info.

I don't think that's connected to them not being nice guys. They're a business, and they need to make money, so they obviously need to sell their software. They are pretty nice in that they're giving away the full-featured product to non-enterprises (e.g. individuals and hobbyists).

Originally Posted by Elysia

I don't think that's connected to them not being nice guys. They're a business, and they need to make money, so they obviously need to sell their software. They are pretty nice in that they're giving away the full-featured product to non-enterprises (e.g. individuals and hobbyists).

I didn't really mean for it to seem like the latter was a result of the former. I probably should have formatted my post to indicate that they were separate thoughts.