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GnuCash - A Call For Help

Posted by simoniker on from the gnu-blood-needed dept.

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."

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  1. Mac OS X? by droleary · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.