AppGen out of business - one fewer proprietary package for Linux

Mon Nov 3 06:38:33 UTC 2003

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:50:29 -0500
cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:

> <http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/18/1814211&mode=thread&tid=132&tid=82&tid=89>
>  
> AppGen, the vendor of an apparently well-regarded set of business 
> accounting software running on Linux, has just gone out of business. 
>  
> And despite promises of source code being held in escrow, the VARs that 
> depend on being able to get 'license keys' from AppGen appear to be 
> significant losers in this. 

I'm not surprised. I had some communication with the author of MoneyDance (an excellent java personal finance app) and he had been quite jerked around by the company, his former employer.
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