On Apr 16, 2009, at 1:09 AM, donkyhotay wrote: > I'll accept > the fact that many companies aren't interested in the linux market and > don't bother making stuff for linux, but when you have something that > *is* compatible with linux and you go out of your way to try to make > it > incompatible (and fail at that even), well... it becomes time for me > to > look for another tax service (online or not) which I did this year.
Consider this: When marketing a product, testing costs. Each browser, OS, version, locale, etc. is another permutation which requires a full test suite pass. One of the problems (from one perspective) linux has at the moment that does not plaque Windows nor OS X is that each distribution is considered a different OS. In general people making the decisions don't see 'Linux Compatible' the same as Redhat Compatible, or Debian Compatible. When I worked at a software company that marketed products on Windows and *nix, we tested on both Redhat and SuSE, and then still had customers who would not buy unless we stated it was also tested on the distribution they ran. So, when it comes down to dollars, they test on the combination that they can afford to test on. To state it works on Linux when it hasn't been tested on it, would be a lie, and easy to prove. Intuit is a for profit company, and if they can't prove the return on investment, they have to do something. Unfortunately, it appears they chose to cut support. Russell Johnson [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
