For what it's worth, as an independent data vendor to incorporate our features/watchlists/data systems into AmiBroker has probably taken a 4-5 weeks of programming, debugging and enhancement development effort. Not to mention the help from dozens of testers in this area.
If you value an average programmer's time at around $2000/week, then there's $8-$10K worth of invested time within AmiBroker. I'm all for data plugins within AB, but think it should be a) vendor supported/initiated (as it is for us) or b) user supported to reward the AmiBroker team for their efforts. Our future efforts will be to create a native data plugin for AmiBroker which will provide even more capabilities. This is a cost which we must bear with the hope that AmiBroker users will decide to user our data platform. Tomasz and the AB team - you have our support in your decision to make the IB plugin a paid subscription model. We don't compete in the intraday space at all (we are end-of-day data only) so there's no conflict of interest too. Best regards, Richard Dale. Norgate Investor Services - Premium quality Stock, Futures and Foreign Exchange Data for markets in Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, UK & USA - www.premiumdata.net <http://www.premiumdata.net/> From: amibroker@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomasz Janeczko Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2008 6:47 PM To: amibroker@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Interactive Brokers plugin policy change Hello, You forgot to mention that it was *donation*, not payment for any service See the original announcement: "Note that it is considered strictly a donation and you won't receive any extras in return except warm feeling that you helped the development of the software you are using and guarantee that if ever IBController changes its status (i.e. from free software to commercial one), you will have license to use it and receive free upgrades." So, it was clearly stated that it is donation, wasn't it ? The other thing is that although nearly 1000 people actually USE IB Controller (because they signed agreement for sending orders automatically) guess how many decided to donate ? I will tell you: 7. Yes *seven*. It is appreciated, but at the same time it is sad that only 0.7% of people are keen to voluntarily donate. Becasue there was virtually no support from users in the form of actually paying a dime, that actually meant to me that I need to concentrate on things that pay any money instead of working for nothing. BTW: you (and the other 6 people) can get your donated money back for IBc. Just send a request to support. Best regards, Tomasz Janeczko amibroker.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "rhoemke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:robert%40hoemke.de> > To: <amibroker@yahoogroups.com <mailto:amibroker%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:55 AM Subject: [amibroker] Re: Interactive Brokers plugin policy change > Hello Thomasz, > > some time ago you gave people the possibility to spend money for > development of IBc. Those who spent money should have additional > features in the new version. Nothing ever happened. No new version, > not even an answer when i asked for an ETA of a new version. > Hopefully this will not happen with TWS plug-in. > > Regards > Robert > > --- In amibroker@yahoogroups.com <mailto:amibroker%40yahoogroups.com> , "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Due to enormous time required to maintain IB plugin because of very > frequent changes >> often breaking backward compatiblity the IB plugin starting from > next version >> will be offered as a subscription service to cover development and > maintenance cost. >> >> Best regards, >> Tomasz Janeczko >> amibroker.com
