GnuCash is accounting software distributed under the GNU banner. Am I the only one who sees a certain irony in this?
"GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows."
"GNU is an operating system which is 100% free software. It was launched in 1983 by Richard Stallman (rms) and has been developed by many people working together for the sake of freedom of all software users to control their computing."
I remember when GNU was new. While it wasn't really spoken of, there was a certain subversiveness to it; a bit of a "fuck you" to a society that was built on the use of money and more often than not described in purely economic terms. It was a microcosm demonstration of a world without cash.
So... wouldn't it stand to reason that accounting software would be of limited - if any - real use in such a world? At least, insofar as it offered the means to track money?
...just sayin'.
"GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows."
"GNU is an operating system which is 100% free software. It was launched in 1983 by Richard Stallman (rms) and has been developed by many people working together for the sake of freedom of all software users to control their computing."
I remember when GNU was new. While it wasn't really spoken of, there was a certain subversiveness to it; a bit of a "fuck you" to a society that was built on the use of money and more often than not described in purely economic terms. It was a microcosm demonstration of a world without cash.
So... wouldn't it stand to reason that accounting software would be of limited - if any - real use in such a world? At least, insofar as it offered the means to track money?
...just sayin'.
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