Le dimanche 29 juillet 2007 à 21:23 +0200, YP a écrit : > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 02:17:51AM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > > Op dinsdag 17-07-2007 om 19:54 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Nicolas > > Pettiaux: > > > 2007/7/17, YP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hallo, > > > > > > > > er is nog veel werk op het gebied rond GPS+Linux: > > > > behalve Garmin/Magellan waar al reeds een gpsbabel, gpsman, gpstrans en > > > > gpsd voor bestaan, ziet het voor de rest sombertjes uit: > > > > Mio en Tomtom maken *wel* gebruik (bijna misbruik) van Linux om heet > > > > kostenloos op hun hardware te zetten, maar het programma die zij > > > > daaronder > > > > draaien is alles behalve GPL; bijgevolg wordt het duidelijker waarom zij > > > > meestal enkel en alleen W$ updates (exe's) bieden maar geen jota over > > > > Linux. > > > > > > > > Ik heb het uitgetest, cf. m'n mail naar Mio Technology Belgium: > > > > > > Do you know http://www.opentom.org : only free software on TomTom > > > > > > I have been told by a membre of openstreetmap during RMLL that it is > > > possible and even easy to install further free software on the TomTom > > > > On the other hand, buying hardware from companies that are > > linux-friendly is a way to send a signal to the other ones (preferably > > you send them a letter to explain why you didn't buy their product but > > one from their competitor). > > > I totally agreed with that, that's why we decided here to buy a Garmin,
wrong idea: they have NOTHING running or planned to run with linux, that is the reason why I am stuck with my IQue 3200. > and not a tomtom nor Mio or other non-openminded GPS products. > (fyi: the Tomtom Go runs a Linux distro, but their program runned under that > Linux is not gpl; so its easy to take profit from the realizations made by > volunteers/developers while refusing to give something back; in such a case, > only a systematic refusal of buying these products is IMHO an adequate and > appropriate answer). > > Y P > > > Regards, -- Thierry LOUDECHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] You can find list info and your subscription configuration options at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
