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  1. Updating Quickbooks Forces Online Membership?

    Yro · Privacy · · posted by Cliff · from the limiting-the-previous-feature-set dept. · 441 comments
    garyebickford asks: "I've been using Quickbooks 2001 for a long time, sending out invoices via email. A couple of months ago it asked if I wanted to do an online update - these occurred occasionally and I agreed. There was no information regarding what the update would do, although IIRC there was some mention of 'new features' and 'improvements'. Since that time, it is now impossible to either fax or email an invoice without signing up for Quickbook's 'Online Business Member' program since it appears to use their own mail server. Membership is free for now, but the required click-agreement forces me to agree in advance to any future fees! I have no interest in letting Intuit know about my invoices and other financial information. As a result, this software is essentially useless and I must find a new accounting package. I've looked at various OSS packages but haven't found one that has developed far enough to use in this way. But there are many out there and I haven't kept up to date, so maybe someone else out there can suggest something. I'd prefer using it on Linux, of course. I'd also be interested if this loss of functionality would be sufficient to consider a class action suit to recover costs of conversion." The issue at hand is that commercial software has started to force consumers to fall into such schemes to maintain features that they already had. Today it is Quickbooks, but what about tomorrow?

  2. Quicken for Linux

    Money · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the think-hard-about-this dept. · 0 comments
    Stephen Birch writes "I have just been informed by Intuit support that they will consider a port of QuickBooks and Quicken to Linux if there is sufficient demand for the product on that platform. They told me that if I leave a suggestion, they WILL get back to me to discuss the suggestion. Sounds like the slashdot effect may be put to good use to request a Linux port of these popular products? " Normally, we try not to post pointers to polls and things like this, but I think there is a legit desire/market here. Quicken is, without a doubt, the most frequontly mentioned app I hear people wishing would run under WINE. But think long and hard before putting a request in the suggestion box.