[Imc-communication] [Imc] UCIMC: Concern about advertisements for Giga-$ non-free software companies

[Sascha Meinrath]

deva wrote:
> 
> On Sep 18, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Mike Lehman wrote:
>
>> I do not know whether any of the free software packages you mention were
>> available when we made the decision to use said software was made six
>> years ago.
> 
> So you did not  investigate alternatives back then? or you were not 
> around then?

We did investigate alternatives and made the decision, based on what we needed, 
to go with Quickbooks.  We had, in fact, started with Quicken (which I was 
familiar with and had an extra copy of).  We wanted to then go to a free and 
open source version, but none did the type of classed accounting that we needed. 
  Over the years we have looked for free open source alternatives every time 
we've had to upgrade our accounting software (the last time being in late 2003 
when we switched to Quickbooks 2004 Pro).  I am certain that the next time we 
upgrade we'll do the same search and evaluation and, if a FOSS alternative is 
available, go with that over Quickbooks.

>>  Anyway, we now have six years of financial
>> data that would need to be converted to something else in order to
>> utilize freeware, assuming it is even appropriate. We have plenty of
>> work to do without adding a large burden to achieve a result of very
>> limited meaning.
> 
> I don't think you even bothered to look at the options boud suggested. 
> You may as well have just saved all the words you wrote and said "We are 
> not interested in exploring such options at this time"

I was the one who did these searches and I think you owe Mike and the UCIMC an 
apology for claiming that folks were lying.

--Sascha

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