Personally, I don't think there will/should ever be a gnuTax, because with TurboTax/TaxCut, someone is liable if the return is wrong, and their returns are guaranteed accurate. I'm not saying that someone couldn't develop a GNU version of the same software that would be as correct as TT/TC, but where does the liability fall if something goes wrong? Can the user sue the developer for writing software that say, 1/100000 times made an incorrect calculation that caused the party to be audited?

The user didn't pay for the software, they just downloaded it and used it... so there was no sale or any kind of contract entered into by the developer and the user. I know that there could be some kind of EULA, which I believe has been proved upholdable in court (not sure), but it could just be a sticky situation for a dev who wanted nothing more than to simply give us an alternative to Windows tax software.

As much as I love the idea in theory, in practice.. I don't think it works.

Grygonos

In reply to Re^3: Financial Tracking Software (a la Microsoft Money) by Grygonos
in thread Financial Tracking Software (a la Microsoft Money) by RazorbladeBidet

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