GnuCash vs. Quicken

[Ray Abbitt]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Daryl Lee wrote:

> I let Quicken die a quiet death after several years of use and annual
> upgrades at $45 a pop  and began starting over again today with
> Gnucash.  I don't find the double-entry accounting any more challenging
> than with Quicken.  The only real difference between the two is that what
> Quicken calls "categories" are well and truly accounts; Gnucash just
> recognizes that fact with their terminology and user interface.

I only upgraded every three or four years, but I've been using Quicken 
since the dos days. But I haven't (and won't) bought another Intuit 
product or upgrade since they started spamming (and sold the address 
to other spammers) the address I gave them for my electronic tax 
filing. (And yes, I unchecked their "opt-in to spam" box.) Spam to 
that address (which was never given to anybody but Intuit) has come 
from intuit.com, quicken.com, emaginet.com, os-0.com and overstock.com
Despite almost 2 years of bounces (550 f___ off spammer) intuit.com 
and quicken.com are still trying to send to me at least twice a month.

-ray