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

[deva]

Do note that you misread my post. But nice try at going on the attack  
to deflect criticism.

deva


On Sep 19, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Sascha Meinrath wrote:

> 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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> Sascha Meinrath
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