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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:29:27 -0700
From:      Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
To:        scanner@jurai.net
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's the interest in comercial desktop apps for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20010426182927.A3498@zippy.mybox.zip>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104262045300.46638-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from scanner@jurai.net on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:47:34PM -0400
References:  <20010426171918.D1977@zippy.mybox.zip> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104262045300.46638-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:47:34PM -0400, scanner@jurai.net wrote:

> Depends. If it is an actuall USEABLE app I surely would. But most of these
> apps are so non complete and feature lacking I wouldnt waste a dime on
> them. And I would expect it to run stable. Another thing most of these
> apps do is crash more often then I care for. If i shell out 50 or 60 bucks
> for a financial app, which I would, I expect it to be stable, and very
> feature rich. None of this "feature X is in the works".
> But I would buy a copy yes if it meets the above requirements.

Well I've found GNUCash 1.4.11 to be pretty feature complete (for my
uses), and somewhat stable too.  But it's help system was horridly buggy
and it had display issues when I used it with BlackBox.

Of course now I've gotta ask, what features are you looking for?

- alex

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