Quick Books To 'Open' API's and Possibly Code Too

[Derek A. Neighbors]

Here is a snippet from IRC.  Curious for general feedback.

<derek> ************ FLAG OF IMPORTANCE *****************
<derek> It appears quickbooks is going to start publishing their API's 
this year.
<derek> Next year they are considering opening the source even further 
to allow customizations to QuickBooks.
<derek> This is interesting on several levels.
<derek> a. it will be nice to have API's to convert people to gnue
<derek> b. i dont think they will be 'open source' so i dont see our 
community giving much back (ours as in the open/free software)
<derek> c. it will make it easy for 3rd party windows products to bolt 
on their ecommerce, inventory, pos and other modules
<derek> which will make competition stiffer for us in the small market
<derek> as one way quickbooks has been displaced is that it wont work 
with anything else
<derek> and it doesnt do enough on its own
<derek> let me know what you think
<derek> 
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2684893,00.html
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