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programming language royalties

Posted 20 March 2012 - 03:40 PM

This is probably a stupid question but I thought about it the other day and the answer may be "no" since I've never heard anyone talk about it before. Basically, when you write a program that you intend to sell, do you have to pay royalties to the company who "owns" the language? Java may be a bad example, so say you write a program in, I don't know, C#. Do you have to pay royalties to Microsoft since they "own"(i think) the language?

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Posted 20 March 2012 - 03:42 PM

LOL, thank goodness the answer is no AFAIK. There might be addons, libs or dlls if you use you might have to pay royalties to the author of that code.
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Re: programming language royalties

Posted 08 April 2012 - 04:39 PM

ive never heard of this so im gonna say no, but some libraries cost money such as the devx or qt framework (depending on how you intend to use it)
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