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The Mono.Cecil license: https://source.db4o.com/db4o/trunk/db4o ... cense.html
The Reflector 6.6 license: http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet ... or/license
If Reflector uses Mono.Cecil, then Reflector's license doesn't contain the required text from the Mono.Cecil license. If that text isn't elsewhere in the software (not talking about the source code - that doesn't count in this case) then it is in violation of the Mono.Cecil license agreement, and can be compelled through civil action by a court to either comply or remove any Mono.Cecil code, documentation or derived code. But these are a lot of "if"s.
This kind of action would surely burn up any money they might get through their $35/license scheme, further delay any innovation on the codebase, and cause even more bad will. Injunctions are relatively cheap to get. Just sayin'. / comments
The Mono.Cecil license: https://source.db4o.com/db4o/trunk/db4o ... cense.html
The Reflector 6.6 license:http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet ... or/license
If Reflector uses Mono.Cecil, then Re...
Any company that is willing to play adolescent Clinton-esque word games about whether they "promised" to keep their product free ("for downloading") is not worth trusting. Period.
Either they truly intended to keep it free (as in beer) and went back on their word, or they intended from the start to deceive the developer community, and use this deceit to keep their potential competitors from jumping into the market. I give them the benefit of the doubt, and think that they intended to keep it free. However, that means that the current decision-makers have made a very poor decision that calls into question their credibility. You have to evaluate Red Gate based upon what they have done lately, and I think it is clear what they have done. Jet Brains didn't pull a stunt like this.
I no longer trust Red Gate to keep their plainly stated promises. I don't buy products from companies I don't trust. I feel bad, because in the end this will cost developers jobs. The people that were working on Reflector may have their jobs at risk. The executives who made the decision to act like kids and play with words will have to answer to their board of directors. How much they want to charge for Reflector is completely irrelevant. Get off it. Those that matter don't care, and those that care don't matter.
They have lost my business, and had this not happened, I definitely would have bought the SQL Compare bundle for use in the software company I am launching next month. This is no exaggeration.
So sad. / comments
Any company that is willing to play adolescent Clinton-esque word games about whether they "promised" to keep their product free ("for downloading") is not worth trusting. Period.
Either they truly...
Companies routinely offer free versions of products to enhance their reputation in their markets, and to expose people to their products. Red Gate management seems to have a simplistic and shortsighted view of how Reflector benefits (or could benefit) their market position, and has instead committed a serious foul that really destroys their credibility, and calls into question every other statement they make about future support. Unfortunately, once an organization has been shown to be willing to deceive, it can never be fully trusted. / comments
Companies routinely offer free versions of products to enhance their reputation in their markets, and to expose people to their products. Red Gate management seems to have a simplistic and shortsig...
You can't blame Red Gate for needing more money to pay for development, but you most certainly can blame them for charging when they originally said they wouldn't. The charge isn't the issue. The reneging on their promise is. / comments
You can't blame Red Gate for needing more money to pay for development, but you most certainly can blame them for charging when they originally said they wouldn't. The charge isn't the issue. The r...
Red Gate has completely lost their credibility, and there is no reason to trust them that they won't pull another semantic trick around the words "perpetual license" when they need more money than they anticipated.
This is bait-and-switch, and now there is no way to know if what they are saying is genuine or not, OR, more to the point, whether they mean it this time, but someone in the future will revise history and make the original person making the promise look like a fool.
That is what I think they have done - they have made the person that said Reflector will remain free look like a fool. / comments
Red Gate has completely lost their credibility, and there is no reason to trust them that they won't pull another semantic trick around the words "perpetual license" when they need more money than ...
Many class action lawsuits involve groups of people who individually would not stand to benefit more than the lawyer fees if they won. That said, if enough people got together to pay for a single lawyer to bring an action, any profit Red Gate might make on charging their $35 fee could be erased rather quickly. Also, if a lawyer is able to make the case about the DMCA giving people the rights to use the software in ways that exceed the license, then Red Gate will also lose.
Think of it this way. If enough people pay $1 to cover lawyer costs, and get the software for free otherwise, it is still $34 cheaper to them than what Red Gate wants to charge for it. / comments
Many class action lawsuits involve groups of people who individually would not stand to benefit more than the lawyer fees if they won. That said, if enough people got together to pay for a single l...
I think the initial commenter's statement says that the DMCA gives you (in the USA, that is) rights to do with the software what you want, even if those rights are not transferred under the terms of the contract. If he is right, Red Gate (a British company, I think) is going to be hurt not only for their obvious lack of integrity, but also their ignorance of US intellectual property laws. / comments
I think the initial commenter's statement says that the DMCA gives you (in the USA, that is) rights to do with the software what you want, even if those rights are not transferred under the terms o...
I sincerely hope the Red Gate board of directors has the integrity to fire the executives who obviously do not have any integrity themselves. You do not want someone making company decisions if they are willing to play adolescent "Clinton-esque" word games about whether or not they made a promise or not. In what other aspects of their job are they pulling this garbage? It is so far beneath what a decent executive should do, and calls into question every other aspect of their leadership, from the initial decision to take over the product, to the decision to renege on a past committment.
If I were a supplier, I'd double check to make sure that every contract that specifies Red Gate "will" do something is modified because obviously they do not use that word in the same way everyone else does.
Shameful. Simply shameful. / comments
I sincerely hope the Red Gate board of directors has the integrity to fire the executives who obviously do not have any integrity themselves. You do not want someone making company decisions if the...