[Fwd: Re: Keep Track of Your Money review]

[Chris Lyttle]

I thought you all might be interested in hearing this person's
perspective.

Chris


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> From: Machtelt Garrels <tille@soti.org>
> To: Chris Lyttle <chris@wilddev.net>
> Subject: Re: Keep Track of Your Money review
> Date: 10 Jun 2002 11:40:56 +0200
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> On 10 Jun 2002, Chris Lyttle wrote:
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> > Hi
> > 
> > I saw your article in Linuxjournal and as I work on the GnuCash project
> > I was wondering if you could give some more details for us of why you
> > chose to give GnuCash the marks you did in the feature comparison. I
> > would also be interested in knowing any general comments or suggestions
> > you might have for GnuCash.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In the original article, my conditions for software were listed out, but 
> the LinuxJournal editors left those out.  I understand these can be useful 
> to you, so here they are:
> 
> - - software should be free and open source, with no-nonsense license 
>   (GPL-style).
> - - should run on Linux
> - - should be easy to install for nitwit-users
> - - should have frequent update/release scheme -> under active development:  
>   At the time of writing (6 months ago, the criterium for a package to be 
>   selected was that there had been an update in the last 6 months.  The 
>   selection itself was based on the Freshmeat listing for accounting 
>   programs. 
> 
> Why GnuCash got the markings it did?  It is a good program, comes with 
> your Linux distro in a lot of cases, it is straight-forward to use and not 
> too much oriented towards the American users (support for Euro).  
> Meanwhile, it got more integrated in the Gnome environment, I must admit, 
> which of course is a good thing.  And it looks nice.  I don't like to do 
> accounting so I want it to be as soft as possible on me :)
> Also, it seems like a scalable piece of software to me, you can start 
> using it as an independent, but lateron when you may have started your own 
> company, you can have your secretary and your accountant deal with the 
> money-issues.
> 
> That's about it, I hope it makes you wiser :)
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> T.
> 
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> 
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