Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: Accountants

[Oliver Elphick]

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 18:43, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > What kind of Accountant do you need and where does he/she have to
> > be? ...
> 
> I do network security for a local branch of a firm of nationwide 
> accountants here in Sheffield.  The fella who runs the Sheffield 
> office does a lot of work for charities.  Goes to London about once a 
> week.  He can also tell me a lot about commercial accountancy 
> packages.  He wants to see a GNU/Linux version of an MS Windows 
> package like Sage.   He's very impressed with the Linux machines that 
> I've built for him.

I was an accountatnt once and am still a member of the Institute.  One
of my long-term aims has been to write a GPL accounting package, though
I haven't yet had the time to do more than a few sketches.  I would like
to work with people on specifying it.

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