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Linux.com: Personal Finance Software for GNU/Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 9, 2005

“Intuit Quicken and Microsoft Money are two popular
Windows-based packages for personal financial management. GNU/Linux
offers several similar applications–most of them free
software–that can meet or exceed the capabilities of the
proprietary programs. If you can adjust to a different interface,
you might find you like one of them more than the better-known
alternatives.

“Reilly Technologies’ Moneydance is the only proprietary program
of the bunch. The license is restrictive in all the usual ways–you
can use Moneydance on only one computer, you can’t use it for
commercial purposes, and you can’t modify it or give it out to
anyone…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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