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Updating Quickbooks Forces Online Membership?
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?
Quickbooks 2003!
Clearly, you have never owned a boar hog ;-)
1. Create popular software program
:)
2. Sell popular software program
3. Force fees on users after the fact
4. ????
5. Profit!!!
Actually, I guess in this cause you can skip number 4 entirely.
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I'd do something interesting, but my server can't handle a slashdotting.
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Look, just because the Inuit live in a relatively primitive society doesn't mean you have to denigrate them. I mean, come on, have you ever even tried seal blubber soup?
Wait... did you mean Intuit? Oh, well, that's different then.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
How much software do you actually need to order some buckets of shit and hire some Mexican kids to fling it around?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Uninstall, reinstall, patch up to the level that caused the problem, and be happy with it.
You mean like what you do with Windows?
I pledge allegiance to the flag...
of the Corporate States of America...
And everyone called him a radical.
Yeah, I lost my Dos 5.0 disks though :(
Not me. I learned my accounting on the street.
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