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>
> I would think that funding of on the order of $150K per year would be
> enough to have a couple or three "professionals" working on GnuCash.
>
> Getting the "nickels" organized together to make up that $150K would
> be quite the challenge; in contrast, I doubt that Intuit could "spit"
> before spending $250K on such a venture.
>
> There would be several challenges to the "professional support" of
> GnuCash:
>
> a) Organizing a credible "team" to be paid for development efforts.
> There are participants that aren't paid now; some may not be
> available at *any* price, and the entrance of significant sums of
> money would definitely change the group dynamic.
>
> I would judge this to be the *first* issue; finding sponsors is
> pointless without the "credible team."
>
> b) Pulling in funding would be the second challenge.
>
> It would almost certainly be worthwhile to try to attract interest
> from sellers of Linux distributions; that could (perhaps) bring in a
> significant chunk of change without immense effort and "spamming" of
> would-be contributors.
>
> It would, however, be highly worthwhile to attract funding from people
> willing to pay (let's say) $50 for the development of a full-featured
> Quicken replacement. I'd be "in" on such an investment, given a
> reasonably credible organization and plan, and stipulated that the
> results be licensed under something like the GPL or LGPL. Given 3000
> people willing to be "in" on it, that might raise $150K.
>
> Of course, that assumes a community that is willing to do such things.
> The FSF's annual receipts from contributions doesn't amount to all
> that much more than $150K, so we're evidently not there yet.
Hmmmmm... maybe this so-called company could also provide other
services. Such as a financial portal site similar to quicken.com. It
could also add additional features at low cost to earn money.
I am quite surprised really that VA Linux Systems or RedHat has not made
an effort to create software such as Gnucash. I would think that a
finance application is just as important as a word processor for most
people, if not more important.
--
Jeremy Collins
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