I've started migration to Gnu-cash.  It's tedious and I'm about 5% into the transfer. The program is open source. it's been stable so far.  Moving the data over requires a bit of wrangling but the steps are all repeatable across the different "segments" of QBooks - accounts, vendor lists, even transactions can transfer.  It's not for the faint of heart and requires IT skills but I have both the determination (to be rid of QuickBooks after this last round of sticker shock for a program that barely works) AND the IT skills since that's my profession.  I think they are in a tail-spin with the economy and are trying to extract a windfall from their "trapped" customers.  We are all prisoners and not here by choice.