Comments on: Red Gate Reflector License Give-away http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2011/03/red-gate-reflector-license-give-away/ Shedding some light on topics of software development, Visual FoxPro, saving our planet, paying it forward, and anything else I find important enough to share. Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:50:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Rick Schummer http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2011/03/red-gate-reflector-license-give-away/comment-page-1/#comment-1407 Rick Schummer Fri, 10 May 2013 22:01:49 +0000 http://rickschummer.com/blog2/?p=1209#comment-1407 Hi Pete, You certainly have the right to your own opinion on the subject. If the product is not worth the price or you can find another free tool to use, use it. Heck, write a competitor to the product and give it away for free while supporting every developer who uses it. However, it is my observation that most developers are just plain too cheap to buy things that can save them time and frustration. They also are very vocal about issues they have with freebies. My observations are based on selling tools *and* working on a large open source project where no good deed is left unpunished. Good luck with your development. Let me know when your Reflector competitor is ready to ship so I can help market it for you. Rick Hi Pete,

You certainly have the right to your own opinion on the subject. If the product is not worth the price or you can find another free tool to use, use it. Heck, write a competitor to the product and give it away for free while supporting every developer who uses it.

However, it is my observation that most developers are just plain too cheap to buy things that can save them time and frustration. They also are very vocal about issues they have with freebies. My observations are based on selling tools *and* working on a large open source project where no good deed is left unpunished.

Good luck with your development. Let me know when your Reflector competitor is ready to ship so I can help market it for you.

Rick

]]> By: Pete http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2011/03/red-gate-reflector-license-give-away/comment-page-1/#comment-1406 Pete Fri, 10 May 2013 20:43:25 +0000 http://rickschummer.com/blog2/?p=1209#comment-1406 Sorry Rick, but I think you're missing the point. RedGate: "Our commitment is to maintain an amazing free tool that will continue to benefit the community while seeking input from users on way sto make .NET reflector even more valuable." So that was their "commitment" which they didn't hold to. And have you noticed that original $20 price and then your $35 price are now $95-$295??? $95 is a few more pizzas. Bottom line is it was stupid. They say they didn't have a choice. Of course they had a choice: They could have just released the code to open source and eaten the loss if they couldn't afford to continue the development. Sorry Rick, but I think you’re missing the point.

RedGate: “Our commitment is to maintain an amazing free tool that will continue to benefit the community while seeking input from users on way sto make .NET reflector even more valuable.”

So that was their “commitment” which they didn’t hold to. And have you noticed that original $20 price and then your $35 price are now $95-$295??? $95 is a few more pizzas.

Bottom line is it was stupid. They say they didn’t have a choice. Of course they had a choice: They could have just released the code to open source and eaten the loss if they couldn’t afford to continue the development.

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