-----Original Message-----
From: John Hearns [mailto:john.hearns@clustervision.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:11 AM
To: 'fedora-list(a)redhat.com'
Subject: RE: hoax or bad taste joke by Redhat's CEO?
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, LoBue, Mark wrote:
> "checkbook". Is there any software that will directly
connect to my bank's
> website and download transactions the way Quicken does?
How about the
> American Express and Discover sites? Quicken does that.
>
Market forces.
Having just ranted against closed source DRIVERS (note the emphasis),
I don't see anything wrong with commercial software packages.
If enough of you and your friends get together and offer to pay
$$$ for a package to do that, it will appear.
Same as Quicken - someone had to sit down and write it and sell it.
(sorry if I'm talking twaddel and Quicken is free as in beer.
But I don't think it is).
Heck - write one yourself. Start with Perl screen scraping code.
Hey, I wasn't asking for a free program, just any program. Macromedia
won't
write it, Quicken won't write it. How could I possibly have the resources
to meet with the bank, get transaction download specs, etc. I'll pay for
Quicken for Linux, but I don't have the time to write that. I'm just
pointing out that RH9 is not good enough on the internet front even
(especially) for kids.
-Mark