hoax or bad taste joke by Redhat's CEO?
LoBue, Mark
mark.lobue at cshs.org
Wed Nov 5 18:15:25 UTC 2003
> -----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
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