Linspire / Ubuntu partnership

[Derek Broughton]

Joris Dobbelsteen wrote:

> Your really thing there will be free software beating the top-of-the-line
> products? If so, which (and when)?

Now.  KDE/Windows.  PostGreSQL/Oracle (they're different markets,
admittedly, but I use both and for almost all my needs I prefer
PostGreSQL).

There is plenty of OSS that "beats" commercial top-of-the-line products. 
It's a matter of filling users needs. The commercial products often try to
do far too much because they need to meet the needs of all.  

Quicken, my only concession to Windows, is a case in point.  All I need is
the ability to balance my books, download the transactions from the web,
and fill in a few forms for the government.  In the end, there are at least
3 OSS products that do the first as well as Quicken (GnuCash, SQLLedger and
KMyMoney), they all promise OFX file imports (I haven't tested them,
though) and nobody has a way to print the government forms I need (but the
OSS products could be extended).  I'd have moved to SQLLedger already if
the damn thing wasn't written in Perl!
-- 
derek