"Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2008/12/4 Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> I fully understand your business' requirements to control access to
>> commercial navigational data. However, when the City Navigator CD I
>> legally purchased bears the logos "Windows Vista", "Mac" and
>> "Universal", one would imagine that buying this imagery meant your
>> $200 product would be readily usable under any OS that could verify
>> licensed ownership through an open protocol such as a web logon.
>
> By 'Universal' they probably mean that it is a 'universal binary', a
> phrase Apple uses to describe software built for both Mac OS X PPC and
> x86.
Yes, they do. There are no consumer GPS solutions that have native
support for Linux in their shipped software, although you can
communicate with many of them using a range of free software tools.
> I agree that it is a misleading title, though.
On the basis that he misunderstood the advertising the OP /may/ find a
retailer willing to accept a return. I strongly suspect that he checks
the "system requirements" he will find the satiation clearly laid out in
terms of requires OS, etc.
Regards,
Daniel
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