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GnuCash - A Call For Help
sedition writes "GnuCash developer Benoit Gregoire has written the State of the GnuCash Project. It is a call for help to the Open Source community regarding the open-source accounting software for Linux, Mac OSX, and more. GnuCash is one of the largest (287,853 lines of code), but least publicized Open Source projects. Now it needs developer support, as its future is uncertain."
At least I know if I get quicken for windows or microsoft money they will always work.
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Sorry. Couldn't keep it in after that.
You replied: "There are so many things wrong with the standard Quicken format that your comment is almost comical - chief amongst them being that there is no standard Quicken format. It is a complete clusterfsck, and I take my hat off the developers who managed to make head or tail of it. As for a text format, that's what XML is, and parsing it is a no-brainer in just about any language you care to name. Perhaps you'd care to write a robust parser for your wonderful error-free format?"
I'm not sure just how much of a part you played in GnuCash's development but your attitude confirms my opinion that it would be very dangerous indeed to use an open source product to store important dfinancial data (as opposed to one's pr0n collection).
The fact of life is that using the industry standard file format is incredibly important to acceptance of a product like this. If you can't understand that you are a big part of the problem.
Try and get your head around two facts:
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Not only could I find nothing about it on the GnuCash site, a search of the same turned up nothing. Face it, this is an app that is poorly designed (Linux users should be insulted they're the target of this mess) and will not work on any reasonable desktop system it is intended for. That is, this is something made for Linux users who must suffer with no alternatives, not for Mac or Windows users who can spend a couple hundred on an existing app that actually works with their system and gets things done. The target market is the (financial) desktop, but the project completely neglects that Linux has no real inroads into that market. Hell, one look at their listed Software Requirements and it's pretty clear they don't have this thing targeted for any common desktop system, Linux or otherwise, let alone Mac OS X. This seems like a project that is best off left to die so that someone who knows what they're doing can sweep up the fractured remains and make something useful out of it.
Only a complete fucking idiot would devote hgis time working for free and then complain when there are no software jobs in industry. /. 15 year old loser) will see this for what it is. THE TRUTH!!
Yeah yeah yeah, mod me a troll. Whatever.
Maybe someone who considers their time to be valuable (i.e. not the usual
Well, GNU substantially did do that. Problem is, like most pot-heads, their ambitions were always getting sapped by bong hits. They couldn't pull it all together and get it running under a kernal anybody would want to run.
Linus came along: someone who it's pretty likely has never smoked grass. He pulled the rug out from under the GNU hippies. The rest is history.
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