Linspire / Ubuntu partnership

[Matthew Flaschen]

John Dangler wrote:
> 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)

Are you talking about ReactOS (http://reactos.org/en/index.html)?

Matt Flaschen

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