Problems to Solve in Free and Open Source Culture

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Here are some current problems that need to be solved.

You might ask, 'where is the money'? Well, Google is a billion dollar company built on Linux. Look at the companies programming for Linux. There is some money going around.


FOSS Quickbooks

Last I checked, there was no good FOSS Quickbooks. I will have to look again. 

Dolibarr - No bank synchronization.
GnuCash  - Not designed for multi-user.
Odoo     - Bloated software. Does way too much that is not relevant to finance. Is CRM/ERP/Kitchen Sink. (I should carefully look at the source code). 
todo: evaluate all other software

A 3D Printing Sharing Site that Includes Source Files

Printables, the Prusa 3D printing sharing site, which is supposedly the most OSHW of all of them, does not require any STEP, or Source code files. This means you get STLs, mostly. That is a fail. Even the name - printables - evokes the trash food of lunchables. Almost, but not quite all the way to a meal. Nice try Prusa. Almost, but no cigar.

Stop the Spread of Discourse

All forums are being mutated like Systemd did with init, into Discourse forums. Options are good. Choice is important.

FOSS Antivirus

I don't think anyone considers ClamAV to be viable as a Windows AV Replacement. Thinks like HijackThis were on the right path. Maybe it would be a FOSS AV Forum, with tools. Instead of trying to detect every piece of malware, instead work on detecting how they break the system. Somehow synced up to something like Virustotal.

FOS Chemistry Resource

There is the Science Madness website, but it's not developed to any serious degree. It's a wiki and a forum. Needed, is a wikibook of chemistry recipes, that are verified. What we are getting instead is dozens of proprietary AI chatbots that steal all the info from Chemistry textbooks, without references and turn it into money. If there was one FOSS AI Chatbot that gave chemistry info that was referenced, then it would be sharing not stealing. For all practical purposes, what you have now is Libgen and annas archive. And the AI's that scrape from those. But digging through 100+ pdfs on a given subject is not trivial.

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