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Mr Block - Please remove me from you mailing list.  I did not request the
email you sent on this subject nor do I want to discuss this issue via
email.

"Mike Block - Tax Cut C.P.A." <mblock@blocktax.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:39:28 GMT, Victor Roberts
> <Vic@RobertsResearchInc.com> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:49:44 -0500, "David J. McCartney"
> ><djm@novadirect.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I know that this was/is primarily a concern for TurboTax users, but it
is
> >>refreshing that for once Intuit responded to the vocal objectors:
> >>
> >>http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,826594,00.asp
> >
> >I really like the part that said:
> >
> >"Gulbransen said a sales agent had mistakenly told at least one
> >customer that the software could not be transferred from one machine
> >to another, setting off the controversy. "
> >
> >This policy was POSTED on www.turbotax.com. I made a copy. Does
> >Gulbransen mean to imply that their Web site was written by one
> >employee and never checked by anyone else (like their legal
> >department), or is he lying, or does he really not know what is posted
> >on his own companies Web site????
>
> Intuit also responded quickly, in the same way, to
> vocal objections before. They dropped separate
> QuickBooks 2000 tax table charges for each company
> using QB, instead of for each copy of QB, when we
> boycotted.
>
> Despite my leading the attack against this practice,
> I am now one of 11 founding members of the QuickBooks
> Advisory Council, which Intuit formed to help it make
> QB better. I respectfully submit I got my post partly
> because I have long felt that pressuring Intuit is the
> best way for us to get better products AND by far the
> best way for Intuit to make more money from more users
> in the long run.
>
> This time Intuit responded even faster, but like many
> I do not feel it has gone far enough. That is why I
> have two new web pages calling for a continued boycott
> of the U.S. version of TurboTax 2002 & the Canadian
> version of QuickTax 2001 & QuickTax 2002. All wrongly
> infect systems with C-Dilla, in the same way many
> time wasting viruses infect computers.
>
> http://blocktax.com/turbotax_2002_boycott.htm
> http://blocktax.com/boycott_intuit_canada.htm
>
> I am also calling for a boycott of QuickBooks Canada.
> It wrongly couples forced frequent tax table updates,
> which are rarely needed, with program updates. This
> results in excessive base prices for Canadian small
> business users. I would not say so if Intuit Canada
> had responded to my prior posts. Even worse, the
> Canadian license agreement has a provision that lets
> Intuit disable access to user payroll data.
>
> I will gladly add prior & current TurboTax C-Dilla
> web policies there, as soon as I get them. This is
> not a matter of wanting to damage intuit, on which
> my clients, I and most small businesses depend. It
> is matter of matter of aggressively working with it
> so that users and Intuit get more from each other.
>
> After all, who among us has done enough right to have
> the 88.2% market share QuickBooks has in the U.S.,
> with its other products close behind?
>
> Please help yourself and TurboTax with feedback at
> www.intuit.com/support/turbotax/ttaxwin_feedback.html
>
> Please also help Intuit Canada with your feedback at
> www.intuit.com/canada/quicken/support/support_feedback_product.html
>
> We can and should protest unequal treatment and bad
> business practices everywhere, especially to friends
> like Intuit.
>
>
>    Mike Block, QuickBooks Tax Cut CPA, 954-566-7540
>      Charter Member:  QuickBooks Advisory Council
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