Posted by: Joseph Cooper
on November 09, 2005 02:12 AM
Well, I'd say that's cause there aren't a lot of accountants who also happen to be programmers with a ton of free time.
Companies with money to spend on development can hire accountants and fund usability studies, but an organization with no revenue and volunteer developers just isn't gonna be able to do that very easily.
Personally, I'm usin gnuCash for my business stuff, but I really can't say how it is in comparison to anything, cause I just started using it last week and it's the only accounting program I've ever used in my life.
That said, I should not that a lot of Linux Kernel, FireFox, OpenOffice.org, etc. etc. programs are developed a lot by programmers on a corporate payroll who have funding for development needs and are working full time. (Redhat, Netscape\Mozilla, Sun, IBM, etc.)
That's not any less free software or anything, it's basically just companies and other organizations (The US Government and others do some work on this stuff) joining the developer community.
It's still a fill-a-need type thing, though. Netscape makes web browsers. So we have FireFox. Sun makes StarOffice... So we have OpenOffice. RedHat works on the kernel cause it's what they sell. Companies and organizations that use the stuff, like NASA, also make contributions whenever prudent.
Point is: Find a company or a professional accountant with a need to make an open accounting program, and then you'll have a good one.
Until then, it's kinda silly to expect programmers with little connection to such a profession to just jump up and compete with Quicken for the hell of it...
If you really know what an accounting program NEEDS, and WHY gnucash is so much worse, specifically, join their dev community and work with them. Do it as a non-programmer if you aren't one.
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Re:Meet or exceed?
Posted by: Joseph Cooper on November 09, 2005 02:12 AMCompanies with money to spend on development can hire accountants and fund usability studies, but an organization with no revenue and volunteer developers just isn't gonna be able to do that very easily.
Personally, I'm usin gnuCash for my business stuff, but I really can't say how it is in comparison to anything, cause I just started using it last week and it's the only accounting program I've ever used in my life.
That said, I should not that a lot of Linux Kernel, FireFox, OpenOffice.org, etc. etc. programs are developed a lot by programmers on a corporate payroll who have funding for development needs and are working full time. (Redhat, Netscape\Mozilla, Sun, IBM, etc.)
That's not any less free software or anything, it's basically just companies and other organizations (The US Government and others do some work on this stuff) joining the developer community.
It's still a fill-a-need type thing, though. Netscape makes web browsers. So we have FireFox. Sun makes StarOffice... So we have OpenOffice. RedHat works on the kernel cause it's what they sell. Companies and organizations that use the stuff, like NASA, also make contributions whenever prudent.
Point is: Find a company or a professional accountant with a need to make an open accounting program, and then you'll have a good one.
Until then, it's kinda silly to expect programmers with little connection to such a profession to just jump up and compete with Quicken for the hell of it...
If you really know what an accounting program NEEDS, and WHY gnucash is so much worse, specifically, join their dev community and work with them. Do it as a non-programmer if you aren't one.
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