On Jan 2, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
On 1/2/2010 1:03 PM, Amol Hatwar wrote:
On Jan 2, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Kartik Mistry wrote:
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Saswata Banerjee& Associates scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
http://lists.cis-india.org/mailman/listinfo/gnukhata-users LUG-Bom != GnuKhata Mailing list
Here we have a mailing list that is dedicated to Linux, (GNU/Linux) and Open Source and that has been crying about the need for an accounting software designed to make linux more acceptable to the general users.
Saswata, I know many general users who know and use GNU/Linux. They don't find the need for accounting software yet. Accounting software makes GNU/Linux acceptable to general users is a wrong premise. Thoroughbred CAs like yourself won't jump till the package has a fan-following. Accountants != General users
Amol Please see the list archives, you will find the need for accounting software to make the platform acceptable has been raised repeatedly. and i did not see counter points saying its not so.
Strange. I've yet to see "General Users" using Tally, QuickBooks and what have you on Windows. I agree the platform sees increased usage; but please attribute it to Accountants rather than "General Users". Archived consensus might not always be the right one...
CAs (like myself ??) will wait for a package to be worth using, stable and able to deliver rather than a fan following. the offer to have it tested and refined is probably a move in the right direction.
Great! Which means, it will require discussing accounting principles, what the software does and doesn't do and all the myriad thingamajigs from architecture to programming style. Separate list I say!
Cheers,
Amol Hatwar