Robert Donovan wrote:
> I don't either. You don't need to duplicate Windows to duplicate the
> functionality of the Windows OS or applications. To keep with the example I
> started with, Linux SQLedger needs to be able to do online banking and
> be easier to install and set up to better compete with Quickbooks in the
> accounting space. It currently can't. Adding this capability to SQLedger
> isn't duplicating Windows, but it is offering equivalent fucntionality.
Accounting is the one application I run under windows. I started on a Unix
platform, when Linus was still in High School. I changed to Windows because it
was prohibitively expensive to get a new Unix system up and running. If you've
never done a change from one accounting system to another, you have no idea
how much fun you can have over your Christmas vacation. The accounting
applications are available in Linux and there are probably more choices than
on Windows. However, it would take major work for me to make a switch and the
learning curve is steep, so I'm not changing soon. I couldn't care less that
it won't interface with online banking. I wouldn't do online banking anyway. I
don't trust the banks that much. And many of them run Windows on their online
banking computers. Can't trust it.
>> Given that predisposition, I rather hope that developers of Linux
>> apps will come up with new ways of thinking about what applications
>> and features are important to have.
>
> Absolutely, but I think most business people would consider accounting
> programs capable of doing online banking important to have, if not as
> part of the OS out of the box, at least available as an add-on. I'm not
> suggesting that all of these things be part of a standard installation,
> just available to the end user.
If they asked my opinion I would tell them not to do online banking and avoid
it like a plague. But that's just me.
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