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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software
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Quoth Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>:
> Stephane Richard fed this fish to the penguins on Saturday 30 August 
> 2003 04:09 am:
>
>>
>> But that's one margin...I assume GNUCash is a opensource version of a
>> POS
>> software?  (point of sale) with integrated accounting?   (or should I
>> shut up rigth now and google on it first so it looks like I know what
>> I'm saying?) :-)...
>>
>         Wrong end of the system... GNUCash is closer to Quicken (I
> presume you are familiar with that)[though I don't know if GNUCash
> fits Quicken Standard, Deluxe, Home Business... I'm sure it is not
> attempting to fill the role of QuickBooks, which is more of a full
> business/payroll application]

The confusion is understandable, as there was, at one point, a company
building software to do POS and integrate that with GnuCash.  Two or
three of the GnuCash "core developers" went into that project.  

Not too surprisingly, in retrospect, not much emerged, and the
business enterprise was discontinued.
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