To be fair, they could apply to BizSpark and the licensing and hosting costs would be moot for 3 years (and it has lots of great benefits):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;bizspark" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;bizspark</a><p>Btw, you can host Node.js apps on Azure if you like (I do), and a Linux stack if that&#x27;s your thing, so it makes sense to apply to BizSpark even if you&#x27;re not going the C# route.