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"We also think we can expose a lot more people to Reflector, which will lead to much more widespread use and greater productivity for .NET developers."
I don't think that making Reflector paid tool will make it more widespread use. To the contrary, it'll become less accessible and less used. RedGate from a company that is perceived as supporting developers community will become just another company that sells software.
It makes perfectly good sense to have products paid and unpaid in the product portfolio. While the other products make profit, free product gets company name recognised.
Plus you take away Reflector from all people that program now for free on their home PCs. They will not buy Reflector 7. And do you think all that plugins for your product are being developed because companies pay for developing them?
And I love RedGate PR: "V6 will continue working untill end of May 2011". You are actually saying that V6 will stop working end of May and that all developers will have to buy a commercial product after that, because of the time-bomb implementet in V6.
I had a very good opinion about Red-Gate until today.
I know it's fair to get money for hard work, you're doing a good work RedGate, but if want to do something extra for the community, do continue with free version of Reflector. / comments
"We also think we can expose a lot more people to Reflector, which will lead to much more widespread use and greater productivity for .NET developers."
I don't think that making Reflector paid tool...