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MikeONeill wrote:
Firstly I see a lot of the commentary is from people who have joined this Forum since Feb 11. So clearly not routine Red Gate users, and do not contribute to the community with experiences from the use of Red Gate products and involvement in Beta Testing etc. They just join up to moan...
MikeONeill wrote:
As a community are we getting too used to freebies, after all as professional developers how often to we work on a project and "Give it away" , I suspect not too often , we are all in it for the money so why should not a commercial operation like Red Gate take the same approach.
Greets Mike,
I couldn't agree more! I highlighted a couple points in your post to point out that: a) I didn't sign up to the forums until recently; and b) professional developers should not be used to getting free tools that deserve compensation.
There are a lot of stand-alone tools which are free or require some fee to unlock their full potential. I have quite a few that I've obtained for my tool-chest and have recently purchased the .NET tools from Red Gate to assist even more with the development process.
It was actually the notice that Red Gate was going to charge for Reflector that made me decide to go ahead and purchase their other products along with it. There have been at least 4 times that I have used Reflector in order to find bugs in framework code, third-party code or verify that an assembly in production contained the same code as the binaries on a build machine. However, I was definitely in need of some good .NET profiling tools and Red Gate seems to have the best on the market. / comments
MikeONeill wrote:
Firstly I see a lot of the commentary is from people who have joined this Forum since Feb 11. So clearly not routine Red Gate users, and do not contribute to the community with...