Tax Software for Linux Followup

Vladimir Vuksan asks: "After that feature about tax software for Linux I contacted Kiplinger software, makers of TaxCut in order to ask about the status or a possibility of a Linux port. The next day I got a polite reply from them that I am enclosing below. I remember e-mailing a similar message to Intuit a year ago but never received any reply from them. I would thus advise people who might be interested in a tax software for Linux to contact Kiplinger." Sounds like this is a chance for Linux to get some decent financial software under its belt! This is a good thing. Hit the link for a copy of the message Vladamir received.

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From: Block Customer Service  Thu 15:22
Subject: RE: TaxCut for Linux

Thank you for your interest in TaxCut product. Unfortunately,
at this time we do not have any plans to do this.
I will surely forward this request to my superiors
and hopefully in the near future they will consider it.

Thank You,
Customer Service

-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Vuksan
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 1:36 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: TaxCut for Linux

I was wondering if there are any plans to port TaxCut to the Linux
platform ? At work and home I use primarily Linux so having to
switch to Windows is a major hassle. If a package for Linux was available
I would most certainly buy it.

Sincerely,

Vladimir Vuksan"

So if you've written submissions to Ask Slashdot asking for tax software (and there have been quite a few of you!) then warm up those e-mail programs and send a nice, polite email to them asking for a Linux port. At the very least, they may see that there is a market for Linux.

A polite letter

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Here's what I sent to them:

1. Hello. As a past and very satisfied user of Kiplinger's tax cut software, I would like to encourage you to release your package under the Linux operating system as well as for the other platforms.
2. 
   
   I am currently converting my home and home office machines to Linux, and will not be able to use your product in the future unless a Linux version is released.
   
   Please feel free to forward this to the appropriate parties within your company
   
   Signed...

(BTW, no response yet. I will post it as a reply to this message if/when one comes in)