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" <robert@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> 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
>>
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