Quicken fraud

I have used Quicken for my home and business accounting for nearly 15 years.  While using Quicken 2003 version in April, the goddamn program refused to reconcile the files I had downloaded from my bank and my credit card accounts.  Quicken told me I had to update my version for $40.

I tried several other programming approaches including an open source accounting packages.  Nothing made it possible to use my previous records.

If the original founders of double entry bookkeeping, six hundred years ago, had been able to stop accounting in its tracks after three years of usage, like Quicken does, we would not have accounting or modern commerce.

I see no reason an accounting package shouldn't last a lifetime.  I see Quicken's behavior as fraud.  Quicken is a product owned by Intuit (INTU) a $10 billion company. Intuit is a dishonest scurrilous criminally fraudulent company.

If Quicken and Intuit weren't a fraud, their programs would have fail dates on the outside of the box and on the opening page of the program. 

Next year, when I can start at the beginning of the year making entries, I will be using an open source program.  Don't buy Quicken, don't use Intuit products.