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Today, like any other Friday, I open the app to send a sales invoice. To my horror the app displays a modal dialog saying "Firstly, don't worry - your data is still stored on this Mac." - then it insists I register a free trial account for their online backup service. No register, no access to accounting data.
The is absolutely the worst thing I've ever seen. I understand their need to monetise, but locking me out of my data until I've given them something they want is simply wrong.
How would you feel? For me, I feel absolutely stupid for using free, proprietary software for my accounts. I've never seen anything like this in my years in software.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good open source accounting package that handles quotes, sales invoices and payment tracking?
Does anyone have any experience in this space?
Aside from cost reduction, the elephant in the room is ease of server hardware maintenance. If the dead server has been immersed in oil then it's a messy job to replace components. Also, I'm wondering about the oil itself degrading components - for example, I think oil eats network cables?
I'm wondering if this might be the next big thing? Or just a hassle?