[clashandcarry]

Also, none of the open source alternatives support simultaneous multiuser access.

Users can slowly adapt, but most businesses larger than a sole proprietorship need multiuser capability.

[toyg]

One would think it can't be that hard to put together a webapp to freaking sum up some numbers, but nobody seem to want to do it in open source.

It could be because it's indeed so easy that it's boring, or could be that anyone with the necessary knowledge of accounting standards makes way more money doing other stuff than coding for free.

[antiloper]

I'd assume that the overlap between capable open source developers and people who enjoy accounting enough to write their own accounting solution is fairly small.

[wrycoder]

This is a big one. I switched from GnuCash to QBO for a non-profit because of that.