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gooch wrote:
I am a long time customer, evangelist and friend of Red-Gate products, services and support. This caught me by total surprise. Well, not really. I was more disappointed when Lutz turned reflector over to Red-Gate. I felt at the time there could only be one motivation for this, not to fault Red-Gate, but they are a commercial product company. If it is true what the CEO says, then please turn it over to the community. It does not have to be CodePlex, this could be a new opportunity for Red-Gate to actually engage its user-customer base even more. Why not create the Red-Gate Open Source Community. You manage the software, releases etc., but let the Red-Gate Community develop and maintain it? Red-GatePlex.com? Let the community create extension and add-ins for Reflector that use Red-Gates tools. I see a bigger value in that then to try and sell a product for $39.00. The price is not really the issue for me and most, it is the principal of it all. I was using a tool Called Salamander ($2500.00) when Lutz release Reflector and have had it as a staple in my toolkit since. I have had nothing but praise for Red-Gate since I was introduced to them over 7 years ago…But this is not a good move…Neil, Can you hear me? Is this thing on? [image]
I vote for RGP.com if it's not taken. on the side note, it might cost red-gate more to support the opensource comminity. this might not be feasible. I hope this move is a publicity stun but doesn't look like one. / comments
gooch wrote:
I am a long time customer, evangelist and friend of Red-Gate products, services and support. This caught me by total surprise. Well, not really. I was more disappointed when Lutz tu...
rhyatt wrote:
If Redgate can't support it as a free tool, they should turn it back over to the open source community who can successfully do it.
This makes everyone wonder if the point of acquiring the rights to it was to monetize the product to begin with, even if it was not the intention.
How about asking to have folks pay for support rather than to use ? This is more in line with the open source model.
Not interested in flame war, just wanting to float the balloon.
if the plan was to turn the userful free tool into profit in the first place, I think this move will anger the community so at the end it will do more harm than good/profit for red gate. it is evil. not the fact that red gate cannot support it as a free product, what's evil is taking something that is good and free away from the community.
raise the price on other popular red gate products, show some love for open source or give it back to the open source community.
cheers / comments
rhyatt wrote:
If Redgate can't support it as a free tool, they should turn it back over to the open source community who can successfully do it.
This makes everyone wonder if the point of acquir...