Linspire / Ubuntu partnership

[Chanchao]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 10:27 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:

> 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).  

Microsoft is going after Quickbooks' behind though, now that they're
giving their new Office Accounting 2007 away free-of-charge.

Actually MS is starting to give lots of stuff away free-of-charge
recently...  It's getting much harder for FOSS products to compete when
Microsoft spins off free-of-charge versions that are roughly equivalent.
I'm just looking at Visual Web Studio Express and it's rather
impressive..  No real need anymore to shell out real money for the full
Visual Studio.

Cheers,
Chanchao