Where will the company be physically located? (i.e., city, country)
Thanks,
-Scott
PS My vote would be for GnuCash, Inc., then GnuMoney, Inc. I'm not sure
Gnumatics is appropriate... especially when you consider #3. :)
>From m-w.com
Main Entry: pneu mat ic
Pronunciation: nu-'ma-tik, nyu-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin pneumaticus, from Greek pneumatikos,
from pneumat-, pneuma air, breath, spirit, from pnein to
breathe -- more at SNEEZE
Date: 1659
1 : of, relating to, or using gas (as air or wind):
a : moved or worked by air pressure
b (1) : adapted for holding or inflated with compressed air
(2) : having air-filled cavities
2 : of or relating to the pneuma : SPIRITUAL
3 : having a well-proportioned feminine figure; especially
: having a full bust
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 02:11:08AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's been rumoured that Bill Gribble said:
> >
> > Herbert Thoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > The gnucash folks weren't really talking about it, but somebody has
> > > invested in them and is funding the development of the program.
> >
> > I think this is pretty much out in the open among folks on this
> > mailing list, but just in the interest of disclosure let me confirm
> > that this story is true. We are keeping a low profile but there are
> > several folks who are working full time on gnucash and planning to
> > make a go of it as an open-source enterprise. Linas will surely have
> > more to say about this after he gets back from Comdex.
>
> Although I do sleep through my email all too often, most people on this
> list probably *haven't* heard any announcements. That's mostly because
> there have't been any. Nor did I want this e-mail to be it.
>
> But the upshot is: yes, there's a company, yes, we're hiring, so if you
> write code or are good at marketing, write me. We don't have a name yet
> (actually, we have two, and/but we need to fix that), there is no
> corporate web site, there's nothing documenting what we sell or for how
> much, mostly because no ones gotten around to it yet. So, how's that
> for a startup? Now its hopefully clear why there aren't any
> announcements: we aren't prepared to be slashdotted, we aren't prepared
> to take phone calls from the press, and etc. To that end, please help
> us not get slashdotted; talk about this with your freinds, but please
> don't post on some major newsgroup.
>
> What will the company do? Continue development of GnuCash under the
> GPL. Provide support, documentation. Help make sure its in your latest
> Linux distro, and that what's there works well. Maybe even get it
> shrink-wrapped at your local bricks-n-mortar mass-market software
> merchent!
>
> As John Hasler laments, the first release is really aimed at home users
> and will really focus on ease of use and on having 'feature parity' with
> Those Other(TM) popular home-user accounting systems. But I don't want
> to ignore small-business needs or features ... being a small business, I
> know what that feels like. There's a lot of interest in a business-
> accounting package for Linux. I'd like GnuCash to be that. I like to
> look at it like this: if we can't do the basic-101 features well, its
> pointless to add complex business accounting modules.
>
> What about the 'open source community'? Well, you know how it works.
> Send in a patch, and if it doesn't torpedo anything, it gets into cvs.
> Keep doing that, and, what, did I mention we're hiring? And even if
> that's not how you participate in this community, I still hope that
> we'll find some sort of long term reward. My empathy to everyone on
> this list whose suffered through the long bouts of our crappy beta
> software and stayed loyal none-the-less. We'll find some way of making
> everyone happy if not satisfied with the results.
>
> --linas
>
> Linas Vepstas
> CEO
> GnuMoney, Inc.
> Gnumatic, Inc. (These are the two names. Which do you like bettter?)
>
>
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