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Dear Mark:
With respect to whether to charge or not charge for TraderWare: CHARGE FOR IT!
If it's designed for the serious trader, then it's a justifiable business
expense, and very reasonable that you charge for the reasons you mention.
If someone wants "something for nothing or very little," there's plenty of
that already & the "quality" speaks for itself. We don't need more garbage,
we're drowning in it.
Personally, I want the BEST you can offer with the BEST tech support, etc,
& I don't mind paying for it.
If one is trading or investing with real money, not playing around as a
hobbyist, then what difference does it make, within reason, if you charge
for it or not?
Regards,
FPI
At 02:54 PM 09/10/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>My first choice is to give the software away and tell you all to take a
>flying leap when it comes time to support you. However because of all the
>nice gooey features you all like, floating tool bars and grid controls like
>in quote pages etc. That all cost big bucks to maintain and pay license
>fees each year that a developer must pay. Besides someone has to keep that
>stuff updated to run with the latest operating system improvements. It's a
>huge undertaking and it cost money and takes time. These reasons and more
>just make a project like TW impossible to be free and also at the same time
>be of any decent timely quality.
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>If the openness of the product is a concern? to would be add on developers
>ect. We have allowed plug in modules of any third party developers, so they
>can take advantage of our data base and maintenance routines ect. Examples
>of a ActiveX control are available now for anyone one who wishes to tinker
>around with it. The file can be found at
>http://www.traderware.com/TWExampleControl.zip
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>I clearly see a division of the troops as I have never seen before. Omega
>is currently the best product available at an affordable cost at what it
>does. It has occupied this position for many years, it has not progressed
>in the direction of the serious trader. If that were the case there would
>be no attempts like TW or TL for sure cause I make more money trading I
>assure you than I ever expect to make selling software.
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