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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:14:31 -0500, Mike Block - Tax Cut C.P.A.
<mblock@blocktax.com> wrote:

>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.

You can live with last years accouting software or last years money
manager, but you can't use last year's tax software. By the time
Untuit can fix this mess, too many will have opted for another, like
TaxCut, which looks just fine to me.

>
>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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