On Jun 23, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Mac Michaels <[email protected]> wrote:
> Howdy, > > I am a retired software developer living in Texas USA. I only understand > English. I started programming on a computer built with vacuum tubes. I > have > a BS-EE from SMU and have been writing software all my career. When I started > college there were no CS degrees. > > I worked for Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard, MCC, and several small > startup companies. I know C, C++, Pascal, Lisp, Perl, Forth, assembly > language on several mini computers, and internal microcode for the TI-990/12. > > I contributed a driver for the DViCO FusionHDTV 3 and 5 ATSC television > receiver PCI cards to the Linux kernel. They are still there, but maintained > by someone else now. I use them daily. > > I run KDE-4 on gentoo Linux. I know gnucash is a gnome application. Gentoo > builds the parts of gnome needed for gnucash to run on KDE 4 and all is well. > > MythTV (a digital video recorder) and Kdenlive (a media editor) are my > favorite applications. > > Bug 658382 is of interest to me as I am trying to get off of Quicken 2003 > Premier Home & Business. I need to QIF import invoices for my wife's small > business to gnucash. > > <FLAME> > Years ago I thought Intuit was a trustworthy company, then they got greedy. > Intuit locked down Turbo Tax to a single computer and made me mad. Now > Intuit > is a real pig as the Quicken to bank link breaks after 3 years in order to > extort more money from existing customers. Since Intuit seems to somehow be > in the loop between your bank and your computer (Intuit can shut > communications down), I do not trust them at all. > </FLAME> > Welcome! We look forward to seeing your patch. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
