__/ [ Tim Smith ] on Tuesday 20 June 2006 17:13 \__
> In article <903lm3-sfm.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
>>> Yeah, like do your taxes, or perhaps create greeting cards. More
>>> inverted logic.
>>
>> Greeting cards? Taxes? Yeah riiiight. I'm sure gnumeric and gnucash can do
>> taxes.
>
> Really? Gnumeric and gnucash know all the Federal and State tax forms, and
> the rules for things like determining whether my sales of mutual fund
> shares are short term or long term gains, and the rules for mortgage
> deductions, etc., and so can simply take my data, and produce filled out
> tax forms, ready to sign and send to the government?
>
> You should post instructions on how this is done, as a LOT of people list
> TurboTax for Linux as one of the top applications they want.
>
>> CARDS? come off it, you don't need a specialised app for that.
>
> Yet greeting card programs sell well. Apparently, a lot of people think
> they do need a specialized app for that.
There is at least one (if not two) which I am aware of. I think I discussed
this not so long ago, possibly in one of the technical NG's. There are Web
applications as well, so you find joy in platform neutrality and a large
variety of templates.
Best wishes,
Roy
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