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MoneyDance 2003 Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the free-money-programs-but-no-free-money dept.

TheMadPenguin writes "For those of you who may not have heard, MoneyDance 2003 was released on March 28th, 2003 for general public consumption. It is available for Linux, MacOS X, and also Windows. Geared toward current Intuit Quicken and Microsoft Money users, MoneyDance 2003 is packed full of features. It's reviewed at MadPenguin.org."

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  1. Re:Just type in the damn URL, mkay? by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Free software may be fine and dandy, but some of us don't actually mind *paying* for software if said software does the job well. Shocking, isn't it?

    I feel you should read the writings of Stallman, in particular the article about the early days of the GNU project. In particular, I'd note that Stallman made a living for many years by selling tapes with emacs on for $150 - it's free software, but people paid for it.

    The issue of free software has very little to do with "cheapness", and everything to do with long term benefits for all.

    I know, you're trying to change that, but face it: Commercial software is not inherently evil, Proprietary software is not evil, RMS be damned.

    This is a fairly common mistake on Slashdot - stating your position does not make it valid. Stallman has quite eloquently argued that for various social, economic and technical reasons it's better for software to be free than proprietary. He's never said proprietary software is "evil", and apart from some excitable ACs on /. I have yet to see anybody else claim that either.

    So, if you want to be taken seriously, you're going to have to:

    a) Respond to Stallmans arguments.
    b) Provide some of your own showing that proprietary software is a good thing.

    Quick tip about the second one - saying "that's how it's always worked" is not an argument.

    Your last paragraph confuses me - it appears to imply that free software is always lacking in features to proprietary software. No matter how much I'm willing to pay, I'm unable to get a version of Internet Explorer that has tabs built in, or that has non-lame JavaScript error reporting without crash-prone extra debuggers, which in fact is currently frustrating my work no end (which is why I'm reading slashdot :). Convenience is an entirely separate issue.

    And in fact in this case it appears from some of the comments that GNUcash is significantly more stable and integrated on Linux at any rate than MoneyDance. I don't know enough to compare features.