Comment on An API for your personal financesparentComments−plinkplonk14y"people are reluctant to trust closed-source libraries that process financial transactions, account details, and patterns of economic behavior."Lots of people trust closed source applications though. QuickBooks, Turbotax ..Your point is still valid, though I don't know what the exact differences between Iron Money and (say QuickBooks) are.−lutusp14y> Lots of people trust closed source applications though. QuickBooks, Turbotax ...No, they don't trust them, they use them because they have no choice. And the problems caused by Intuit's closed-source business model are legion:http://www.consumeraffairs.com/computers/intuit_turbotax.htm...The above sounds like a recitation of distrust, not trust.
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"people are reluctant to trust closed-source libraries that process financial transactions, account details, and patterns of economic behavior."
Lots of people trust closed source applications though. QuickBooks, Turbotax ..
Your point is still valid, though I don't know what the exact differences between Iron Money and (say QuickBooks) are.
> Lots of people trust closed source applications though. QuickBooks, Turbotax ...
No, they don't trust them, they use them because they have no choice. And the problems caused by Intuit's closed-source business model are legion:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/computers/intuit_turbotax.htm...
The above sounds like a recitation of distrust, not trust.