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jeremy.parsons wrote: We worked hard to make that viable. It just wasn't. So now we're asking people to pay $35 for Reflector. Complete garbage. How possibly could "it not be viable"? You're saying that support and maintenance costs are too high internally to be able to continue to put bits up on a website that you host? Fine - put it up on Codeplex then, that reduces any hosting cost. Maintenance is too high? Same argument - don't dedicate resources to support updates. The simple train of logic is not too hard to follow. Lutz for some reason did not open source Reflector. So you, or some other investment made a management decision to purchase the intellectual property, and obviously the thinking is that it would drive more traffic to Red Gate. Then the decision was made to invest development resources into it to add some features - like the Visual Studio integration. Now someone wants to see ROI. The .NET community is becoming more and more an open source community and first class citizen. This decision demonstrates that Red Gate has no interest in aligning themselves with the overall interests of the .NET community and has zero intention of becoming a first class open source citizen. Obviously there is a myopic viewpoint somewhere in management, so let me spell this out for you in ROI terms. By first giving the appearance of interest in becoming a first class open source citizen, and now reversing that decision, the overall long term effect on ROI is that now you are branding your company as anti open source. This will drive the larger percentage of the .NET community away from Red Gate and have a far greater negative impact on both ROI and public perception than the original decision to acquire Reflector had. If the original decision was too short-sighted to be a good one financially, the right direction is not to make another poor decision. Public perception of this nature literally could table the sales and interest of ANY .NET related product RedGate offers or is interested in. I'd strongly suggest that you rethink this decision. / comments
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jeremy.parsons wrote: We worked hard to make that viable. It just wasn't. So now we're asking people to pay $35 for Reflector. Complete garbage. How possibly could "it not be viable"? You're...
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