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Yes they have deleted probably a dozen or more of my posts including everything that refers to ILSpy / comments
Yes they have deleted probably a dozen or more of my posts including everything that refers to ILSpy
On the ethics end of things, Reflector is acting just like all the hackers malware out there.
It compromises your desktop, then gives popup messages saying your computer is infected, and gives you a PayPal account to put money in.
Awesome job with the malware development there, Redgate. / comments
On the ethics end of things, Reflector is acting just like all the hackers malware out there.
It compromises your desktop, then gives popup messages saying your computer is infected, and gives you ...
Whats funny is they simply don't "get" this type of post. Look at the blog on their decision reversal.
Most intelligent corporate leadership if they are doing something that generates this intense of emotion, would question their decision.
Not these guys. They only get affected by people who take the time to spell it out for them in "intelligent discourse".
They have zero appreciation for the fickleness of the market. Once you piss a majority off, you will never regain them despite all your efforts. This is more true of the dev community.
I wouldn't want to give odds on their survival rate at this point. / comments
Whats funny is they simply don't "get" this type of post. Look at the blog on their decision reversal.
Most intelligent corporate leadership if they are doing something that generates this intense...
The smartest thing Red Gate could do at this juncture is to completely reverse their decision and support ongoing a free community version of Reflector.
Develop the paid version and feature sets as they have as a VS add-in.
But they've shown they are not very smart.
So the community will leave, and people will realize that paying all that money for basically calling up something from VS as opposed to just using it externally isn't worth all that much. The only thing worth all that is the step-through debugging feature. / comments
The smartest thing Red Gate could do at this juncture is to completely reverse their decision and support ongoing a free community version of Reflector.
Develop the paid version and feature sets as...
They haven't had a change of heart. It's just that their decision and it's full impact to their bottom line have just started to become known.
They falsely present the choices available to them in that blog. A third option exists:
3) Continue to subsidize the development of Reflector even if it isn't profitable as an outward show that Redgate supports the .NET community.
Oh, but they'll complain, that isn't good business practice. Sure. Neither is any open source endeavor, or any .NET code that people post out on Codeplex, if you just look at it from a short-term myopic viewpoint.
However, people still do open source, support open source, subsidize open source. Look at the Orchard project Microsoft is doing for example. 8 or so headcount all dedicated towards producing an open source software result.
Some companies have come to the conclusion that if you want to do business with a community that values community contribution, then you need to be a first class community citizen. Which sometimes can include "giving away" dev time in a show of good will.
Other companies don't seem to be able to come to that conclusion.
My prediction is that they won't last long. / comments
They haven't had a change of heart. It's just that their decision and it's full impact to their bottom line have just started to become known.
They falsely present the choices available to them in...