Giving up on Gnucash

[Chris Shenton]

Rod Engelsman <rodengelsman at ruraltel.net> writes:

> I really *do* appreciate all the hard, unpaid, labor that's gone
> into this program. It's just not what I was looking for.
>
> And I'm dead serious about the need for someone to take this and fork it 
> into a product that's more friendly for home users migrating from 
> Quicken, Money, etc. 

I think forking would be bad, dividing labor that's already thin.

What some other OSS projects have started doing is using financial
"bounties" for features. If someone wants a feature, they post how
much they're willing to pay to get it implemented. Others with the
same desire can contribute to the same bounty. If the promised funds
become enough, some enterprising coder/consultant may take it on.
When done, the function gets added to the core. Everyone wins. 

I think it's an interesting hybrid approach to providing commercial
support for OSS apps.

Maybe if folks who want UI improvements contributed as much money as
they would give to MicroSoft et al for their software, you might
collect enough to pay someone to do the work to improve GnuCash to
your satisfaction.  Just a thought.