Semi-OT: Referral for Linux-friendly accountant

[Vaughn Treude]

Randy Melder wrote:
> Why stop at GNU Cash? You could always hand-write your ledgers,
> invoices, P&Ls, and Balance Sheets. Then you're truly liberated.
> 
> I mean, why give them more money? They've stolen from you at least
> $250 over the last 10 years. Those evil-doers. How can anyone run a
> business with thieves like that?
> 
>  ; )
> 

It would've been more like $1000, but I canceled their tax-table updates 
and coded the deductions amounts myself in a spreadsheet, based on the 
Employer Guide the IRS mails every year. :-) But it's not the money, 
it's the ownership of data issue. I would willingly pay twice as much 
for a program that would extract the data from QB and put them into an 
open format than to get the QB update.

Vaughn

> On Jan 22, 2008 6:05 AM, Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at stilyagin.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 06:51:02AM -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>>> I'm not by any means an open-source fanatic. But I AM an open-format
>>> fanatic. This is _my_ data, I own it. Intuit sucks!
>> Absolutely!
>>
>> Years ago I coded for a software company on a vertical market financial
>> app. We had several rival companies. When a customer switched, in
>> whatever direction, there was never an issue. The data was provided, and
>> even some support and/or developer time given to getting the data out of
>> the old system and into the new system.
>>
>> Of course I wouldn't expect a horizontal company like Intuit to give
>> actual time for this, but they should have an export to CSV option for
>> all your important data. It's very sad if they don't. Ok, it's not sad.
>> It's disgusting.
>>
>> --
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