Re: Decompiler.NET reverse engineers your CLS compliant code

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From: Jonathan Pierce (support_at_junglecreatures.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:36:43 GMT

"Shawn B." <leabre@html.com> wrote in message
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> see it as tying to a specific machine. What happens if you go out of
> business in 2 years?

That won't happen. We're also only charging $500, not 5 million. There is as
much of a risk that you may get hit by a bus tomorrow and won't need the
software anymore.

> Besides, I didn't say I'd write my own decompiler, I just said if it was
> that important I could, I'm more than capable, its just not a priority and
> since I don't decompile non System.* assemblies, the price is not
> justifyable.
>

We spent over two years writing ours. I imaging that two years of your time
is worth more to you than the $500 we charge for a license which our
costomers feel is a tremendous value to them.
> I'm not fine with being actively dependant on a vendor in
> order to keep using the software despite all of my requirements.

You are not if you don't replace your motherboard or machine itself. Tivo
doesn't even let you move your lifetime subscriptions to newer hardware that
they themselves sell.
>
> I just happen to dissagree
> with that kind of licensing. It does nothing to keep prices low

Pirated copied cause vendots to raise their prices for their software since
their target market is cannibalized. Locking down licensed copies to
hardware reduces the amount of software piracy and therefore does keep
prices lower that without it.Although you may feel that $500 is high, we
intenitionally priced our product much lower than the cost to develop it to
make it accessible to small developers like yourself who might benefit from
it. If Reflector also charged $500 and there weren't any free choices
available with relatively good decompilation capability, you would probably
feel differently towards our product and be glad that a product like it was
available to you instead of having to invest the two years yourself trying
to write your own decompiler that works as well.

Jonathan

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