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KristoferA wrote:
JasonBunting wrote:
I mean, if Lutz could provide it for free for all of those years and not get one dime for it,
Are you claiming that Redgate didn't pay Lutz Roeder for Reflector?
No, that's not what I meant - I mean he worked with no promise of monetary recompense. Besides, if you read it more closely, you will see that the main reason I even mention that is to illustrate the fact that maintaining Reflector in the same way Lutz did all those years shouldn't have caused the problems we are now seeing Red Gate have - i.e. losing money since no one is buying the enhanced versions of Reflector. / comments
KristoferA wrote:
JasonBunting wrote:
I mean, if Lutz could provide it for free for all of those years and not get one dime for it,
Are you claiming that Redgate didn't pay Lutz Roeder for ...
RichardD wrote:
Interesting. It probably won't be free, but I'd rather give money to JetBrains - with their unblemished history of not ripping people off - than RedGate.
Amen!
I think that Red Gate realized that they made a bad investment by spending money to add features to Reflector that were unasked-for, and now don't want to eat the costs of their bad investment, choosing instead to punish users for their mistake.
I regret that Lutz Roeder sold Reflector to a company that has decided to force users to eat the costs of their poor judgment regarding the market's need for an enhanced version of the tool - it's too bad he didn't simply open-source it.
[Edit] - And to those of you complaining about ReSharper's performance, either your machine is simply inadequate in some fashion, or you are not maintaining it very well - I don't have any problems running it, and my current client has me working with a Visual Studio solution that contains 23 separate projects (for the which we can thank the vendor that originally sold it to my client). Maybe you should utilize a RAM disk or something for the ReSharper files. Also, make sure your disk is defragmented often. I really don't know why people have problems with the speed of it, I've used it for over 3 years and never had a problem. / comments
RichardD wrote:
Interesting. It probably won't be free, but I'd rather give money to JetBrains - with their unblemished history of not ripping people off - than RedGate.
Amen!
I think that Red...
codputer wrote:
Redgate also states that it cannot continue to make the free model work, yet there are many companies that are able to!
I think you have a valid argument here, to some extent. Here's the thing: it seems to me that if Red Gate had simply decided to acquire Reflector in order for good press/publicity, and maintain it as-is, it would be relatively cheap for them to continue development on it as Lutz did. I mean, if Lutz could provide it for free for all of those years and not get one dime for it, surely a company as relatively large as Red Gate could do the same, seeing how they would be getting the marketing by having users visit their website in order to obtain Reflector. I would be interested to know how many hours Lutz put in each year on Reflector. Again, I am willing to bet Red Gate could've absorbed that cost had they simply maintained it in the same way that Lutz did, rather than try to create an additional, for-pay product.
My hypothesis is that had they stuck with the product as-is, they wouldn't find themselves in this position and we wouldn't be discussing this - instead, because of a bad gamble they took, we all have to pay for their mistake - isn't this typical of business? Pass the costs of bad investments on to the customer rather than the investor? Apparently Red Gate can be lumped into that crowd, because that's exactly what this smells like.
Hey Red Gate, maybe you should give a basic version, one on-par with what Lutz maintained, back to the community to develop and maintain - a fork of the code - then, you continue, if you so desire, to develop a for-pay version. I think that may save your reputation a bit, notwithstanding the beating it has already taken. / comments
codputer wrote:
Redgate also states that it cannot continue to make the free model work, yet there are many companies that are able to!
I think you have a valid argument here, to some extent. ...