Any sign of payroll yet?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 02/10/2014 11:51 AM, Christopher Nighswonger wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Fast Radio <fastradio at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> In my opinion ...Asking GC for payroll is extremely selfish.
>>
>
> Having written and contributed thousands of lines of code to one of the
> largest FOSS ILS systems, I must say that from both a developer and user
> prospective asking is almost never a selfish act. The fact that someone
> inquired about payroll and Gnu Cash has already generated some excellent
> discussion which, in turn, has put some excellent ideas on the table for
> valid solutions to the problem which avoid the typical nasties of payroll
> writing/maintenance. When the question was first posted and the first
> rather short response given, I had zero idea why it appeared to be such an
> issue. A later response did a fine job of clarifying the difficulty.
> Subsequent responses have provided ample solutions both real and potential
> to resolve the OPs problem.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this very enlightening thread.
>
> BTW, has anyone thought of crowd funding for the idea of a clean plug-in
> system? Users from different locals could even crowd fund for local payroll
> solutions if they liked. It never hurts to invest cash in your favourite
> FOSS projects.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Chris

Hi Chris,

I am an engineer (BSEE) and a computer consultant. I support
Windows, Linux, and occasionally, an Apple.  As you can tell
from my signature block, I am not much of a fan of Microsoft
(M$) products.  I though I'd tell you why I was asking about
payroll support.

Since M$ has won the application war, it is really difficult to
get anyone off of Windows.  They just don't have the applications
they need.  The largest sticking block to this is Quick Books (QB).
And the "payroll" service QB provides.

Now in all honesty, the other sticking block is finding an accountant
that knows anything other than Quick Books.  Customer's want
to use what their accountant uses.  Peach Tree users get
told by accountants to convert to Quick Books.

Linux is so much faster and more stable than anything M$ has
to offer.  Fedora Core (FC) Linux is security hardened too (my
favorite platform).  And, Windows 8.x is such a horrible
piece of trash, I cringe when I have to work on them.
But, they have to have their Quick Books and their
payro1l service.

I don't care much for the straight jacket Apple puts you
under, but the quality difference ...

And, I sometimes feel somewhat guilty making money off
of Windows bad quality, but I really can't get people
off it.

I would love a third party pay-for-service payroll plugin
for GC.  Folks are already paying QB extra for payroll.

-T

I upgraded a FC19 workstation to FC20 last week.  It
was a really old Pentium 4.  Took about 1 hr, 20 min.
Perfect and uneventful.  Try that with Windows.
Now Linux is not without its problems, but my goodness
Windows has become utter crap since XP.  XP was
not so bad.

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