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Intuit Disables Features in Quicken To Force Upgrades

Posted by michael on from the dog-bites-man dept.

Numerous people submitted a blurb from BoingBoing about Intuit disabling features in older versions of Quicken. Why the BoingBoing submitter and Mr. Doctorow are so upset about this I don't know; when you buy software that's dependent on a for-profit company to keep working, what do you expect?

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  1. Re:Why not GnuCash? by Zeinfeld · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    If software doesn't run on your OS and doesn't talk to your bank then the fact that it's open doesn't help much.

    Michael's knee jerk comments are like one of those idiot 'anti-globalists' who blame every problem on corporations.

    Sure there are some real issues with the fairness of world trade rules and poor countries are often at a major disadvantage to rich ones. But Michael's is just a knee jerk reaction with no analysis or thought: 'ah its the slashdot crowd so I need to do is say something nasty about proprietary code and everyone will cheer!'

    It is not clear to me what has happened with Intuit because the story has come to us through at least two lossy channels. We don't have the original letter, only the complaint to Cory. Cory himself is an inaccurate scribe where this sort of thing is concerned.

    I don't see how Intuit could remove previously supported features, particularly the bill pay feature where they are not even in the loop. What I suspect is going on here is that there is an ongoing move to align the older OFX communitation protocols to align them with modern protocols like XML and Web Services. When OFX came out XML was only begining. We certainly had not done XML Signature yet.

    I suspect that the original message was a somewhat inaccurate message that appeared to come from Intuit of the form 'you need an upgrade'. Heck, the message may not even be from Intuit at all, it may just be a spammer trying to sell hijacked software.

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  2. Re:An agrarian view about Intuits upgrade mechanis by SilverspurG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you've been trolled

    I'm bored enough to eat trolls.

    Enjoy looking like an idiot already?

    What's that? Is that a little girl I hear? You hear that whining Ace? What happened to mister big mouth?

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  3. *YOU* are made out of meat too by leonbrooks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are you wearing an "Eat me!" tee-shirt? (-:

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  4. Re:An agrarian view about Intuits upgrade mechanis by SilverspurG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So do I. Since you can't it becomes funny.

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