Re: Fwd: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:49:27 -0800

What's .Net Reflector?

On 3/02/2011 9:18 AM, Michael Ridland wrote:

How absolutely ridiculous, I'm very disappointing in red gate.




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Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:31 AM
Subject: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>


An open letter to the .NET community

Red Gate has announced that it will charge $35 for version 7 of .NET Reflector upon its release in early March. Version 7 will be sold as a perpetual license, with no time bomb or forced updates.

As many of you know, our original intention was to maintain .NET Reflector as a free tool. But, after two-and-a-half years of providing it without charge, we realized that we could not make the free model work. We know that this will cause pain for some people in the .NET community, and we apologize for the change in policy.

As a commercial company, we need to charge at least a nominal amount to keep .NET Reflector up-to-date and relevant. Without revenue coming in, we cannot dedicate a team of developers to ensure that Reflector remains a valuable part of .NET developers' toolboxes.

As always, your feedback is important to Red Gate, so please contribute any thoughts on this subject to our .NET Reflector forum.

Sincerely,
Neil Davidson
Co-CEO, Red Gate Software

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