Linspire / Ubuntu partnership

[John Dangler]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:42 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> 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
Holler when they start giving away vista... ;)
(actually I saw an alpha version of an OS that said it was an XP clone
and was open source - not made by M$ of course)
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