David Herman wrote:
On Sunday 04 January 2004 04:27 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote: ------------snip----------------
TurboTax is about the only tax program that anyone will use. Others just give you gas.
At the risk of leading this thread wildly off topic I'll chime in and make it more off topic.....
I chose to try taxact last year after learning of Intuits invasive spyware move (I had used Intuit software the previous 4 years and been reasonably happy w/ them). I was completely satisfied that my needs were met by taxact software. Unfortunately it is also winders based, but as a smaller company they may be more easily swayed to the linux camp. The Intuit stuff rocks in terms of products like Quicken etc. It is a pity they have not embraced the open source community. Maybe Novell will lead some weight to it with its next Novell GUI running linux?
Even w/ intuits grovelling I won't go back until taxact or some other software fails to meet my needs. I have to strengthen your opinion here as I felt strongly about losing my financial software in favour of linux, as GnuCash and MyMoney don't measure up to Quicken's standards. I have totally abandoned linux in favour of being able to do my finances a few times. 'Luckily' linux won, and here I sit with over 2 months of financial records to one day input into Quicken.
What I give up for linux! :)
That said I will continue to look for and try linux based tax software but until it becomes available I'll stick w/ companies that don't install spyware w/ their product. Do let the list know if you find a Quicken like port plse.
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