Quote from Lamont_C:
I've always been happy with Sierra, though AmiBroker has its fans as well.
As far as the assurances regarding changes, Clearstation (and others) said the same thing when they were sold. In some cases, as with BigCharts, the changes have been minimal and MarketWatch has maintained pretty much a hands-off attitude. But questions, comments, suggestions are pretty much ignored.
In the end, freeware and shareware are not the best choices. Those days are pretty much gone. Better to go with whatever provides no more than what's needed and does it as inexpensively as possible. In my case, that's Sierra. And if you need a lot of support with whatever you're using, just move on.
LC