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Desaware (Spyworks et al) now with full Source!!!!

Desaware has just announced that they are, in addition to bundling their products into two separate suites (.NET and COM versions), including FULL SOURCE CODE!!!!!

This is incredible news.  Considered to be one of the companies that pulls off the impossible with their products, you can now see exactly how they managed to do it!  Also, combining the products into suites is pretty cool as well.

Check out the .NET product lineup.

[update] There's also an interesting white paper they have on their site concerning this shift titled Impact of Source Code Availability on the Economics of Using Third Party Components in pdf format.

Published Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:51 AM by CorySmith
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# re: Desaware (Spyworks et al) now with full Source!!!!

Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:58 AM by Tim Hitchings
Infragistics has been shipping .NET source.

# re: Desaware (Spyworks et al) now with full Source!!!!

Monday, March 01, 2004 8:15 PM by Cory Smith
True, true. I just was saying that it's amazing that a company that has a reputation of pulling off things that have in the past been considered near impossible is now sharing the source. This is not to say that the Infragistics code is any less impressive.

# re: Desaware (Spyworks et al) now with full Source!!!!

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 5:39 AM by Mike Schinkel
I applaud Dan Appleman and his team for releasing the source and bundling his products at such a great price (compared to individually priced products.) As a reseller you might think I'd want prices to be higher, but I don't. I got into this business long ago to try and help create a stronger market for components, and one of the things required is rational pricing (i.e. not so expensive that most people can't afford them.) As a developer myself, I always hated when good tools were out of my price range.
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