CHASE scraps OFX Direct Connect, disadvantaging open-source financial software

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https://www.banktivity.com/support/articles/banktivity-7/ofx...

https://www.banktivity.com/support/articles/banktivity-for-m...

That's indeed the very press release that the linked mailing-list post discusses. Banktivity is a proprietary software, for the record.

Those are the links of value: explaining why OFX was deprecated for Open Banking. The mailing list post has little context beyond those links (no replacement is being offered for ofx and there is no recourse for users of it).

The whole e-mail thread linked to discusses this change in details, in particular in terms of what it means to open source software and what potential remedies are left. The Banktivity links are, in turn, of little value to the open source community as is.

Typically, when a mailing list e-mail is submitted to HN, it's rather the whole thread that is worth reading for the context, not just the very first e-mail in chain.

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