I thought you all might be interested in hearing this person's perspective.
Chris -----Forwarded Message----- > From: Machtelt Garrels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Keep Track of Your Money review > Date: 10 Jun 2002 11:40:56 +0200 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 10 Jun 2002, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I saw your article in Linuxjournal and as I work on the GnuCash project > > I was wondering if you could give some more details for us of why you > > chose to give GnuCash the marks you did in the feature comparison. I > > would also be interested in knowing any general comments or suggestions > > you might have for GnuCash. > > Hello, > > In the original article, my conditions for software were listed out, but > the LinuxJournal editors left those out. I understand these can be useful > to you, so here they are: > > - - software should be free and open source, with no-nonsense license > (GPL-style). > - - should run on Linux > - - should be easy to install for nitwit-users > - - should have frequent update/release scheme -> under active development: > At the time of writing (6 months ago, the criterium for a package to be > selected was that there had been an update in the last 6 months. The > selection itself was based on the Freshmeat listing for accounting > programs. > > Why GnuCash got the markings it did? It is a good program, comes with > your Linux distro in a lot of cases, it is straight-forward to use and not > too much oriented towards the American users (support for Euro). > Meanwhile, it got more integrated in the Gnome environment, I must admit, > which of course is a good thing. And it looks nice. I don't like to do > accounting so I want it to be as soft as possible on me :) > Also, it seems like a scalable piece of software to me, you can start > using it as an independent, but lateron when you may have started your own > company, you can have your secretary and your accountant deal with the > money-issues. > > That's about it, I hope it makes you wiser :) > > Have a nice day, > > T. > > - -- > > My Penguin, my freedom. http://tille.soti.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE9BHQraoV5304OxkgRAsTRAKCaW8Fxk6kXzKPsAXuvPOa7w5gfAwCgrM2a > CeO2A/ZhhO35PFGmjc4kqRI= > =Hlla > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- RedHat Certified Engineer #807302549405490. -------------------------------------------- |^| | | |^| | |^| | | Life out here is raw | | |^| | But we will never stop | |_|_| | We will never quit | / __> | cause we are Metallica |/ / | \ / | | -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
