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 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. >> >> -- >> Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG >> dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ >> http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss