The free one is timebombed, so yes, there won't be any free version around (unless you grab the earlier non-timebombed versions that Lutz released ages ago).
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Richards Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:11 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector I rarely used Reflector so ultimately, this doesn't bother me too much. The real question is whether they leave a free (and obviously older) version available. If yes then I don't really have a problem with this. They could qualify the name of the paid version with "pro" or something (since they already have a pro edition). In this case, they are living up to the "we'll keep it free" statement and simply offering a new product based on the free version. A subtle yet very important distinction. If, on the other hand, they remove all links to the older free version making it difficult (never quite impossible) to get, I'd consider this very poor form and would mentally give them a black mark and tend to avoid their business in future and would volunteer my negative opinion to others. Time will tell. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 22:48, Noon Silk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Joseph Cooney <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Like many things in software development (and life) I think it's all >> about managing expectations. By choosing the word they did in their >> initial announcement red-gate set the expectation that there would >> continue to be a free version of reflector in perpetuity, so some >> people (I think >> understandably) feel a bit put-out when they don't meet that expectation. >> Will I buy a copy of reflector when it's released? Sure. Am I happy >> about having to keep track of reflector license keys, and not being >> able to assume everyone has and uses reflector? Not so much. Do I >> look forward to having to carefully scrutinize everything red-gate >> say in case of future back-pedaling? No. For example in their most >> recent communique red-gate said "Version 7 will be sold as a >> perpetual license, with no time bomb or forced updates". How should I >> take that given their change of heart on the free version? > > Free can become not; perpetual can't stop being so, or else it wasn't > in the first place. > > >> Joseph >> >> -- >> >> w: http://jcooney.net >> t: @josephcooney > > -- > Noon Silk > > http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | > http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > > > Fancy a quantum lunch? > http://www.mirios.com.au:8081/index.php?title=Quantum_Lunch > > "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy > of being this signature." >
