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Re: FIXimate download link missing
Hanno Klein / Deutsche Börse <>
13 Dec 2011 11:50AM ET > FIXimate is very good tool, its a bit of a shame though to make this available to FPL members alone, sounds contrary to the usual "FIX spirit" of the website.
FIX is and will remain a free protocol but this does not necessarily apply to all the tools developed by FPL that can reduce effort for the user. This is funded by FPL members who are entitled to know why they should pay membership fees. FPL does not work on the basis of money being donated. There are only a few hundred FPL members compared to the tens of thousands of FIX users out there around the world. The limited funds have allowed FPL to provide great tools such as FIXimate, the FIX Repository, FIXML Schema and FIXwiki. Some of the tools were originally developed by FPL members and then donated to FPL. FPL could do much more in this area if more than a fraction of FIX users were also members. Model driven application development is a key area where you can save a lot of effort (=money) through the use of repositories and tools. It only seems fair to give some of these savings back to FPL in the form of membership fees.
Thanks for listening,
Hanno.
Re: FIXimate download link missing
Hanno Klein / Deutsche Börse 13 Dec 2011 11:50AM ET
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