XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: gordonbparker@yahoo.com
On 16/11/2010 03:52, ZnU wrote:
> In article,
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>
>>> On 2010-11-14, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In message, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ...this all boils down to obscure niche apps that are Windows only.
>>>>
>>>> Small businesses come and go all the time. I think the opportunity is
>>>> with new startups, who haven’t locked themselves into a proprietary
>>>> platform, to adopt Free/Open Source software instead.
>>>
>>> There is a lot of value in those specialty applications and a lot of
>>> domain expertise and automation embedded in them. Simply igoring them
>>> might not be a feasable option.
>>
>> That’s the sunk-cost fallacy; just because all that effort has already
been
>> expended, doesn’t automatically mean the result shouldn’t be thrown
away.
>>
>> If it were Open Source, or at least the data formats used were open, then
>> yes, something would be worth preserving. Otherwise, it’s just a hole down
>> which you keep throwing money.
>
> But what is a given individual small business supposed to do about this,
> exactly? My small business uses QuickBooks, for instance -- which is
> overpriced, proprietary, and in my opinion, just bad software. But we're
> not in the business of writing bookkeeping software, so we're hardly
> going to write something better ourselves -- and even if we did, we
> wouldn't be able to send its data files to our accountant, which is half
> the point of the thing.
>
This is indeed the catch-22 situation, and won't change until
accountants stop recommending Quickbooks and (spit) Sage...
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