Why Intuit should have an Open Source version of QuickBooks...

[Greg Rundlett]

wei at cs.dartmouth.edu wrote:

>>http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/05/HNsmboffice_1.html
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>So why should Intuit have an Open Source version of QuickBooks?
>Because Microsoft is doing it?
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I think he meant that having a GPL'd version would allow the company to 
develop the product feature-set better than the company could do on it's 
own, giving pause to competitors who would need even larger resources to 
compete.  Still, the dual-license business model of a MySQL, AB may not 
be appropriate for a tax and accounting packaged software vendor.  I am 
not familiar with Intuit's revenue model.

-- Greg