[Discuss] Finance software for Linux

[Jerry Feldman]

I personally find MoneyDance to be reasonably good and I have been using
it for a number of years. In some cases where I have reported a problem,
Sean Reilly got back to me quickly and solved the problem. Unfortunately
there are only a few companies in the industry who produce tax software,
and they only Windows and Mac compatible, or you can use the web
interfaces. This type of software does not really lend itself to to Open
Source.

On 01/13/2015 09:16 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Rich Braun <richb at pioneer.ci.net> wrote:
>> [lots about personal finance software]
> First a confession, I don't use any personal finance software.  I view
> my statements regularly, but don't do any reconciliation of accounts
> and I have an accountant do my taxes...
>
> While I can understand how Tax software needs constant updates, it is
> less clear to me why personal finance software would need this.   The
> only changes that I can imagine would be needed on a frequent base
> would be for automated inputing of statements from outside parties.
> It would seem to me that some kind of plugin/filter system which
> allowed users to write data input modules might help to spread the
> effort around.  Perhaps something like the system used in the Zotero
> bibliography package which understands many data layouts because it
> makes it easy for users to write and distribute import/export plugins.
>   Perhaps I'm missing something?
>

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