hoax or bad taste joke by Redhat's CEO?

[LoBue, Mark]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hearns [mailto:john.hearns at clustervision.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:11 AM
> To: 'fedora-list at redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: hoax or bad taste joke by Redhat's CEO?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, LoBue, Mark wrote:
> 
> > "checkbook".  Is there any software that will directly 
> connect to my bank's
> > website and download transactions the way Quicken does?  
> How about the
> > American Express and Discover sites?  Quicken does that.
> > 
> Market forces.
> 
> Having just ranted against closed source DRIVERS (note the emphasis),
> I don't see anything wrong with commercial software packages.
> If enough of you and your friends get together and offer to pay
> $$$ for a package to do that, it will appear. 
> Same as Quicken - someone had to sit down and write it and sell it.
> (sorry if I'm talking twaddel and Quicken is free as in beer. 
> But I don't think it is).
> 
> Heck - write one yourself. Start with Perl screen scraping code.
> 
Hey, I wasn't asking for a free program, just any program.  Macromedia won't
write it, Quicken won't write it.  How could I possibly have the resources
to meet with the bank, get transaction download specs, etc.  I'll pay for
Quicken for Linux, but I don't have the time to write that.  I'm just
pointing out that RH9 is not good enough on the internet front even
(especially) for kids.

-Mark