[Fsf-friends] Fwd: [nagarjun@gnowledge.org: [ILUG-BOM] Tally and GNU/Linux]

[Nagarjuna G.]

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> 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
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> 
> 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
> 
> 
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