GnuCash and Swedish accounting legislation

[Draug]

I do completely understand what some of you are saying, and the 
interpretation that the Swedish Account Standards Boards gave me was 
that an end-user should not be able to *directly* edit the transactions 
in the program a.k.a. "no special skills required to alter entries" as 
you stated.

On 01/24/2016 03:19 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:00:11 -0500
> From: Mike or Penny Novack<mpnovack at mtdata.com>
> To:gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: GnuCash and Swedish accounting legislation
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> On 1/23/2016 4:46 AM, Draug wrote:
>> >I have come to realize that GnuCash can't be used according to the
>> >Swedish Account Standards Boards interpretation of the Swedish
>> >accounting legislation, which unfortunately forces me to use some
>> >proprietary alternative that will increase my overhead expenses.
>> >Hopefully the lawmakers will come to understand technology some day.
> But I think you are still not understanding what some of us are saying.
>
> WHAT "proprietary software alternative" (that you would buy and run on
> your computer) do you think I, for one, would not be able to alter?
>
> What exactly is the Swedish Standard Board saying? That the software has
> only to be secure against LEGAL tampering? << by the usual license
> agreements for proprietary software not even legal for me to look at the
> software (disassemble it), run under control of a monitor to find
> exactly where it does things like password checking, etc. ---- people
> like myself can hand edit machine language >>
>
> The problem with gnucash (with regard to Swedish regulations) would be
> that no special skills required to alter entries. Can be done WITHOUT
> messing with the program, editing data backups and then reloading, etc.
> << BTW, that last might not even be illegal >>
>
> Michael D Novack