Hey Duster ... I have totally re-written Gummy's original code. My LiquidityRatio Grapher tool is very different from Gummy's original ... only the very general appearance was kept. (certainly not very proprietary) 90% of the underlying code is different.
I had given praise to Gummy and linked to his website for many months. I have decided to move on with my own stuff now and feel continued design credit to him is no longer necessary or valid now that the code is so different. I have no hesitation in telling everyone that he was the first to explain Liquidity-Ratio to me and show by example in a spreadsheet. Mac OS X does not give credit to the conceiver of BSD in its code ... however, if you research the Apple message board you will find them stating that it is based on BSD. I have always stated that I have taken Gummy's original and modified it greatly ... everyone knows that ... I'm not going to make a pop-up on every one of Blashing's Liquidity-Ratio Grapher screens giving credit to Gummy's original design.
I continue to give Ken Goodrich credit for his idea of Seasonality when discussing it with others, but there also I have my own way of expressing it ... inside my PowerGraphs, you will not find the name Ken Goodrich. PowerGraphs are my concept and design. My Liquidity-Ratio Grapher tool, including its relationship to Volume-Price Graphs, of variable periods are my concepts and design.
I have discussed with Duster, for instance, my ideas and he has decided to try to program his own variation ... I do not expect Duster to give me any credit with his finished product.
And finally, once understood, the concept of Liquidity-Ratio is very simple ... programming it is easy. We certainly thank Gummy greatly for his textual explanation the concept (and all his other concepts) ... that was a really great thing! Gummy has decided to teach others rather than profit from his knowledge. I think it satisfaction enough for him that we talk about his help in our advancement ... as a pupil would talk about his teacher ... the teacher not expecting credit for every great thing the pupil does (e.g., we don't know who helped Gummy)
Certainly there are lines of demarcation from whence credit can stopped being given. How many of us have developed our own spreadsheet and chart that shows prices and moving averages or stock purchases and sales and profits ... must we give credit to the designer of the first one of those simple uses of Excel. Does Excel even have to give credit to Lotus or SuperCalc for copying their original designs ??
Ken & I have not taken any profits away from others in developing our own concepts of Seasonality or tempting others to use our LiquidityRatio tools ... and we certainly never shy from telling others of the great teachers that we have learned from.
I could go on, but thankfully won't.
I certainly hope that I haven't offended you too much by my commercialization of a concept and starting from a tool made public by another. I have never seen Bill Gates credit Steve Jobs for Windows.
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