Re:Quicken for Linux? (Score 1)

Intuit developers have a rough enough time keeping up with the Win/Mac platform as it is. I've met some of Intuit's developers, they laughed when I mentioned Linux. In their eyes, Linux is a hobbyists OS, and has no place in the corporate(capitalistic) world we live in. As far as Intuit releasing source code for anything, I think we had best not hold our breath. The wheels grind very slowly in any corporate environment, and as shaky as Intuit can be with free alternatives to their software available( MSMoney), I don't see them doing anything potentially risky anytime soon. They are still unsure year to year whether or not they will continue releasing Mac stuff. Even if they did port to Linux, the chances of such a company considering Open Source would shake their stockholders to the core of their being. And at Intuit, the stockholders are really the ones in charge when it comes right down to it. If the stock is rising, we must be doing good seems to be the mentality. To add more to this pot 'o' soup, they have approximately 20 developers for Windows, and 3 for Mac. They do not have the time to finish what they code now, and do you really think they would hire developers to work on porting software without being able to guarantee the numbers beforehand ? To sum this up, in order for Intuit to consider Linux, the main control and motivation of the organiztion would have to move away from the idea that the bottom line is money. They would have to believe in writing good software that appeals to many people in the belief that the quality of their coding would sell itself. That is a far cry from living a a slave to the stocks.