-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 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. Basically I'm saying your statement is incorrect. Even w/ intuits grovelling I won't go back until taxact or some other software fails to meet my needs. If you can't trust the maker of your tax software then you might as well have Bill Gates do your tax return.
Perhaps someone in big Linux (SuSE?) could give them a call and ask them to compile the program in Linux?
Undoubtably a commercial concern could improve the chances of a port but my personal requests (as a purchaser of their product) for a port were always met w/ the suggestion that I use their web based solution instead. I guess their position is why should they do the work when they can get their customers to do it for them :-( 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. - -- dh Don't shop at ZipZoomFly.com! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/+MP0BwgxlylUsJARAhi6AJ9bfRLV+Qc3NNdZ7cesAnhtSga04gCfbwvM uAB6zpSQqSmb1peY7RrxMKQ= =SXnL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----