Red Gate announced that their Reflector tool would soon become a paid-for app. A few years ago they bought the rights to Reflector from Lutz Roeder and started maintaining two editions of the product: a free version and a commercial version with extra features. Many people in the .NET community feel unhappy about that decision.
Whether Red Gate's decision is good or not for them is up to other blogs to discuss. I am grateful that over the years Reflector ran with Mono's Windows.Forms implementation and that the maintainers were careful to keep the code running with Mono.
Of course, I would always like more an open source equivalent to a proprietary tool, and while Reflector was a free download, it was never open source.
Some believe that in response to the announcement we created a competitor to Reflector. We did not.
We have had a decompiler in Mono for a few years now. First, we had a decompiler contributed to MonoDevelop by Mike's wife and we later replace it with the one that was developed by JB Evain:
Whether Red Gate's decision is good or not for them is up to other blogs to discuss. I am grateful that over the years Reflector ran with Mono's Windows.Forms implementation and that the maintainers were careful to keep the code running with Mono.
Of course, I would always like more an open source equivalent to a proprietary tool, and while Reflector was a free download, it was never open source.
Some believe that in response to the announcement we created a competitor to Reflector. We did not.
We have had a decompiler in Mono for a few years now. First, we had a decompiler contributed to MonoDevelop by Mike's wife and we later replace it with the one that was developed by JB Evain:
