Newbie migration issues

[Derek Atkins]

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Rod Engelsman <rodengelsman at ruraltel.net> writes:

> Update on the first item. It turns out that I'm experiencing bug 
> #120938. It must be some kind of weird library dependency issue or 
> something.

No clue.  Maybe Josh will chime in.

> In all honesty, if I wasn't having to learn Linux for a class I'm taking 
> I would have chucked the whole exercise a few days ago. This open source 
> stuff is just way too buggy and hard to deal with. One can only afford 
> to burn up so much of one's time for the sake of feeling politically good.

Hey, you get what you pay for!  Seriously, nobody is paid to work on
gnucash.  It's a completely voluntary effort, and all the developers
have other work to do for real, paying jobs.  Moreover, there's a
dearth of new developer blood to help fix bugs (let alone finish the
port to gnome2).

Compare gnucash to other OSS financial apps and then let me know where
we stand.  Note that if you have to pay for it, it's not OSS, so
MyMoney doesn't count.  If we charged $30 for each copy of GnuCash
we'd definitely have more resources to get more developers to actually
fix some of the more glaring issues that we haven't had time to fix.
:-/

> Rod

-derek

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