Getting money for Gnucash development [was Re: Newbie migration

[Derek Atkins]

Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:

>> Getting the word out will help.  Certainly increasing the GnuCash user base
>> amongst Linux users in general will help too -- I wonder how many
>> Linux users/programmers are balancing their checkbooks *by hand* or have
>> dual boot machines, with Quicken or MS Money, *out of ignorance*?
>
> Not many that I know! (but then I'm not known to be shy of telling them to use 
> it!)

A number of people I know who still use Quicken use it because GnuCash
doesn't have OFX DirectConnect yet, so they can't initiate electronic
payments from Gnucash, or contact their bank(s) directly to download
transactional information.

There ARE technical reasons why people still use Quicken.  Hopefully
we can pull GnuCash up to that technical level..  But we need the
resources to do so.  Everyone is always busy.  :(

-derek
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