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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?
In Soviet Russia Quickbooks installs you!
Try either paying for the software or uninstalling it. Either way, it'll clear up those pesky registration screens.
Incompatible with anything but a single sourced computer that runs a closed-source GUI.
it goes ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONGING TO US!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! SO funny!!!!
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Great move there buddy, call on the standard ko line of all imbeciles. Call the person a terrorist, and it immediately makes you righteous, right? Perhaps you should more closely read the constitution of the United States, or the principles the country was founded upon, instead of resorting to tagging people as terrorists. I personally, would argue that what Intuit is doing is a removal of property, since they are removing usable access from a program that is one's property. After all, property is protected by the constitution. Also, the argument that there is a disclaimer has already been previously denied in court. So without proper packaging, or advertising the product simply as a service, i don't see how they are not removing property. But, don't resort to calling people terrorists, simply becuase they don't want to give away their personal information to a company. Besides stating that a company is honest simply states that you don't follow the news, or the recent ENRON, scandal INCLUDING their TAX COMPANY. (Accounting, but whatever). So why should you be forced to TRUST a company.