On Wed, 10 May 2000 16:32:16 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> >>>>> On 10 May 2000 18:26:20 -0500, Bill Gribble
> >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> Bill> There *are* free alternatives. Free in this case means that if
> Bill> we make gnucash depend on it, we don't restrict people's
> Bill> abilities to use and distribute gnucash.
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> Re: using a separate, standalone database for gnucash, instead of one
> which works transparently via the filesystem somehow.
>
> As I got out in the Free Software world, telling people about how
> great gnucash is, I still have people asking me how their data is
> stored, and asking if they can edit the files by hand. Just last week
> someone said, "Well, I guess it is okay if there is a way I can export
> to text, and import elsewhere. I just _hate_ it when someone thinks
> they can hold _my data_ hostage."
It seems to me that this is still the most significant MAJOR problem
with GnuCash at this point in time.
There _NEEDS_ to be a data format, possibly the "text export,"
that can both be exported _AND IMPORTED_.
Rob Browning has indicated a couple times that this ought not to be too
difficult to implement; I would be quite game to send $50 in someone's
direction when this happens.
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