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2Feb/112

RedGate Reflector 7 news roundup

Below is a series of links related to todays news that RedGate will cease to offer a free version of its .NET Reflector product.

Stackoverflow Links

There are some stackoverflow questions that might be in need of updating as a result of the fallout of this.

In addition, hopefully there will be some activity on the Reflector section of alternativeto.net.

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  • Jen MidnightDBA

    On my “Blowing Kisses” blog (http://tinyurl.com/68q8rj6), you made the comment: “I’d agree with RedGate being number 2, except for their decision to pull the free version of .NET Reflector. That action is unforgivable and I will never buy another RedGate product again.”

    I just wanted to be sure you got my response:

    Dude, the new cost of .NET Reflector is $35. You’re going to eschew an entire company because they decided to start charging for a previously free product? I personally don’t know the whole story about .NET Reflector, but from the surface it sounds like you’re being more than a tad unreasonable.
    -Jen

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps it is sightly unreasonable for one small business decision by a company I otherwise loved to lead me to completely write them off. However, they said they would try to keep the product free and didn’t try very hard. As I said in my original post (http://www.justaprogrammer.net/2011/02/02/redgate-is-no-longer-free-i-say-open-source-it/), I’d gladly pay $100 towards an escrow fund for open sourcing the thing. If they issues the .NET community an ultimatum of “Some of you guys better start paying for reflector pro or we gotta drop the premium model” then I could at least say they tried.

    The matter of RedGate Reflector came up in conversation at the speakers lounge at Code Camp NYC on Saturday. I was the only one to take the extreme position, but everyone agreed it was a terrible PR decision. Also, since most were ALT.NET people and therefore dabbled in java and OSS the observation that the .NET ecosystem seems to lack commercially supported OSS software unlike java where its commonplace to pay for OSS “support”. That might be why RedGate never considered placing the source code up for ransom.

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