TraderSeven, I don`t think that MT will die some near day. Simply becouse there are millions russian speaking people with money living in the ex USSR, hundreds of them are already trading forex ( how succesfully - i don`t know ) and thousaonds of them will be trying to trade in the nearest future, becouse it is getting more and more popular, but only 1% of them will be paying for software to trade( russian nature =) ). And how is the free russian based platform called? That s right - Metatrader.
As to foreign people, they must get some problems solved like this tech documentation, and customer support to be strong on the market.