The forwarded mail may be of interest to all.
----- Forwarded message from "Nagarjuna G." nagarjun@gnowledge.org -----
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:45:14 +0530 From: "Nagarjuna G." nagarjun@gnowledge.org Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Tally and GNU/Linux To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Reply-To: nagarjun@gnowledge.org, "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Organization: gnowledge.org User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2
I have been seeing that off and on this list keeps talking about Tally and how to run this on GNU/Linux? Tally is not a free software, and I dont see why users should discuss this on this list.
On the other hand availability of accounting packages is a big problem and several hackers are addressing this issue, including some of our own list members. We should discuss those issues.
This list is not for discussing propreitary software, but free software. In fact we should be discussing the issue of how to boycott the distributions that ship propreitary software and have explicit tieups with such agencies. This clearly shows that these distribution companies do not have any interest other than being in business.
BTW, those of you who have some knowledge of this application, can you do some research about how the data is stored in Tally? Is this encoding a standard? Does this application support Export of data to any other standards? What freedom users have? Are the users locked in? etc.
Nagarjuna
----- End forwarded message -----