hoax or bad taste joke by Redhat's CEO?

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Actually, I use Firebird and the Macromedia plug-ins work with no problem.
As I recall, it was an easy install.  Just go to the plug-in page and
download them.

As far as automatically downloading the bank statements, I'm not familiar
with a product that does but that in no way means its not available.  Just
about any checkbook program can take the text download file and import it.
I know it's not exactly what you wanted, but it's close.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of LoBue, Mark
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:15 PM
> To: 'fedora-list at redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: hoax or bad taste joke by Redhat's CEO?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Hearns [mailto:john.hearns at clustervision.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:11 AM
> > To: 'fedora-list at 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
> 
> 
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