Thanks, Red Gate
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They have to make a living, what would you sugggest?
Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]
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Uh... Do you develop software for a living? Do you work for free? This is the last place I'd expect to hear complaints about wanting to get paid for work done. Jeesh. $35 is pretty cheap for a useful tool. If it's not useful, don't use it.
Steve Tahan Savannah River Site Aiken, SC
sgtahan wrote:
$35 is pretty cheap for a useful tool.
TextPad is a useful tool that I use every day for hours. It is only $27 for a single user license. That is "pretty cheap". $35 for a tool that I use no more than once a month for less than 15 minutes is not even close to cheap.
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I understand your anger at losing a valueable tool, and I understand that $35 have different weight in different places. Still, it would be healthy to accept that when the free lunch is over, you should rather remember the good times had than sit moping. Imagine there would never have been a Reflector to begin with. From the Red Gate announcement in 2008: Our commitment is to maintain an amazing free tool (source[^]) Now, I know that's not all that's been said, and you can interpret it in different ways, but there's no promise of Reflector remaining free for all time, and I doubt Red Gate would have made such a statement officially. The time bomb: My point is that Reflector never was "perpetually yours" to begin with. Besides, if you want to maintain only one version, you just do, there's no need for a time bomb. Lutz never opted to make reflector open source, he got paid by Red Gate ( they flew out a guy to meet Lutz to close the deal[^], so I guess it wasn't just peanuts). Lutz deserves what he got (the outcry of the .NET community is proof enough for me), and Red Gate deserves their moneys for maintaining Reflector for over two years. $35 is an incredible fair price for a developer tool.
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| FoldWithUs! | sighist | WhoIncludes - Analyzing C++ include file hierarchyI agree with most of what you said. However, Red Gate *did* indeed promise to keep it free forever. Lutz certainly did deserve whatever he got. More power to him. And, BTW, I'm not angry, just disappointed and disillusioned.
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams "Let me get this straight. You know her. She knows you. But she wants to eat him. And everybody's okay with this?"
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:sigh: I knew it would happen... there goes one of the most useful free utilities ever written for the .NET platform... Darn you Red Gate :mad: Maybe some of us here could get together and write something to replace it. It would be challenging but rewarding if we managed it. I've generated IL plenty of times before when DynamicMethod was the only dynamic code generation method in .NET. Reverse engineering would be harder but obviously it's possible.
I second this. Instead of whining we (or some subset of "we") should just write a new, shiny metal, free, open-source tool. We might call it ".NetScope", "BlackGateReflektor" or something like this. I'm sure someone can also come up with a cooler name.