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The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)
The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)
Posted Sep 15, 2005 9:09 UTC (Thu) by fatrat (subscriber, #1518)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I) by sjj
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)
It's a commercial non-open source program and our Grumpy Editor did say he was not going to look at commercial products. If you want to look at it, you can download a copy to play with.
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The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)
Posted Sep 15, 2005 13:08 UTC (Thu) by dayers (subscriber, #1602) [Link]
Aaaw, come on! This isn't a religious issue, for all love. Since Moneydance is way ahead on features and useablity, why not give it a look? I'd rather see it the standard for comparison than Quicken.
I used gnucash for a while, but md is much, much better, IMO.
The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)
Posted Sep 16, 2005 15:27 UTC (Fri) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]
Ah, a religious person complaining about religious people. Sounds about par.
The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)
Posted Sep 16, 2005 8:19 UTC (Fri) by guybar (subscriber, #798) [Link]
and our Grumpy Editor did say he was not going to look at commercial products
And with all due respect (which I have), he might have been wrong: at least as far as giving an example for what the standard in the non-free world is.
I have been curious about this for some time.
If you want to look at it, you can download a copy to play with.
Isn't the purpose of a "review" to do exactly this kind of "playing with" the products in the field, thus saving a lot of redundant work by a lot of readers ?
The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)
Posted Sep 17, 2005 18:40 UTC (Sat) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]
The license states "only for your own personal use", using it to write a review probably is not only for Grumpy Editor's personal use.
Also, I worry about lock-in on programs like that and have no interest in them. Oh, sorry folks we've sold out to the monopoly I'm sure they will meet your future needs.