I agree with Mike. There are things I will not share for free, because it takes to much time to support -- especially if someone modifies my AFL and then has a problem because they did not realize some side effect of their change. I would be more tempted to share some things if I could protect some parts of the AFL so that it was a black box function, just like a DLL would be. It is not even a matter of getting paid for it.
I would of course prefer to see it be something simple, like an encrypted include file with a key used to un-encrypt each copy on the fly at run time. I am sure some would be tempted to offer a paid product if it could be protected for both support reasons, and to keep it from being ripped off and translated to other platforms. I do offer things for free that are mutually beneficial to myself and the community, as time permits. When someone offers a product for sale, they put a lot more effort into it to make it a useful and documented product that does what it says it will do. The real cost of a paid product is the documentation and support issues. If someone in the community offers something for sale that is not supported or worth the price, then it will only take a day for the community to advise against using it. The programmer will never recover their costs if they do not offer something of value. However, we have to be patient with what we ask TJ to offer and when. He is only one person with many things on the priority list. I have a number of things that I would like to see in the next beta, and most have to do with solving my own problems with making AFL programs that will improve my trading (the main purpose of AmiBroker). I would like to see more low level AFL infrastructure enhancements to make it easier to make more customized trading "platforms". Best regards, Dennis On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Mike wrote: > I support the feature. It hurts no one, and opens up the possibility of > creative new tools for those that see value in the offering. > > There are already numerous examples of quality commercial products and > services, arising from the AmiBroker community, that have not comprimised the > cooperative spirit. > > Were the paid versions of Fred's "IO" not worth the money when Walk Forward > was not otherwise available? Should Howard's books have all been published as > free .pdf files instead bound texts? Should the recordings, workshops and > courseware from the various conferences all have been made freely available > rather than paid CD's? > > Contrary to the sentiments expressed thus far, I invite supplemental > offerings. All of the above have substantially benifited those who saw the > value. > > Ultimately, commerce is the reason behind why we're all here. Small > businesses are the life blood of a healthy, thriving, *adaptive* economy. The > more talent put towards a common goal, the more likely the generation of > creative new tools. > > However, Tomasz has repeated often that: > > 1. Features of each subsequent release are predetermined well in advance. > > 2. This user group is effectively ignored with respect to new feature > requests. (Though there are more than one example of that rule being bent, if > not broken) > > Those in favour of the feature may add their support to the existing request. > Those against are welcome to their opinion. Though, my hope is that that > opinion might be swayed in light of the examples above. > > Mike > > --- In [email protected], "mark.a.brand" <mark.a.br...@...> wrote: >> >> I agree with the sentiments of Grant Noble & Steve Hite also >> >> 2009/11/24 Keith McCombs <kmcco...@...> >> >>> >>> >>> Ronald -- >>> Sorry, but I agree with the quote below, which you attribute to Grant >>> Noble and Steve Hite. >>> >>> Also, I doubt that the AB community represents a very good market for >>> "Black Box" software. >>> >>> You might better translate your indicators into TradeStation's >>> EasyLanguage. EL code can be easily encrypted and, I believe, the TS >>> community is more receptive to "Black Boxs". >>> -- Keith >>> >>> Ronald Davis wrote: >>> >>> >>> I have no C++ programming skills at all, so making an AFL plugin is out >>> of the question for me. >>> Also, I imagine it would be a lot of work for C++ programmers to create >>> Plugins because of >>> the inability of DLLS to access the fantastic array processing that is >>> unique to Amibroker. >>> >>> I have attached a chart of UKW which, IMHO, clearly shows top pivots and >>> the bottom pivots. >>> >>> Years ago,when my son showed me the Amibroker software, >>> I concluded that it should be possible to develop AFL smoothing techniques >>> that would >>> produce custom indicator lines that would display the technical status of >>> any symbol. >>> >>> Hopefully, some Amibroker readers of this Yahoogroup agree with my view >>> that these chart lines >>> really do a good job of showing the top pivots and the bottom pivots. >>> >>> This email is a suggestion that we form an Amibroker/Saul Alinsky community >>> organizer group in >>> an attempt to convince T J to include Encryption Ability WITHIN the AFL >>> editor. >>> IMHO, T J'S comment per 2) below that he would make it a seperate add on >>> was to allay the >>> concerns of grantnoble and stevehite per 1) below. >>> >>> 1) On April 13, and April 14, grantnoble and stevehite submitted the below >>> descenting comments. >>> >>> "I hope this functionality is never implemented. >>> If one's AFL is that good then just keep it to yourself and make a private >>> fortune or write a plugin in C/C++ >>> and sell that (if you can). Tomasz has a great open community in the Yahoo >>> group and this doesn't promote >>> a sharing of ideas. I don't see how this benefits anyone other than third >>> parties who are just looking to make >>> a quick buck." >>> >>> 2) On Apr 25th, 2006, Tomasz Janeczko responded with "This will be made >>> available as a separate add-on >>> product" >>> >>> I have also attached a wordpad of the all of the Encryption feedbacks that >>> were posted in response to >>> Encryption suggestion #51. Ron D >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > **** IMPORTANT PLEASE READ **** > This group is for the discussion between users only. > This is *NOT* technical support channel. > > TO GET TECHNICAL SUPPORT send an e-mail directly to > SUPPORT {at} amibroker.com > > TO SUBMIT SUGGESTIONS please use FEEDBACK CENTER at > http://www.amibroker.com/feedback/ > (submissions sent via other channels won't be considered) > > For NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENTS and other news always check DEVLOG: > http://www.amibroker.com/devlog/ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
