Hello all...
I was recently on the Delorme (Street Atlas USA, AAA Map'n Go, other
GPS products, etc) and left them a message asking why they didn't have any
Linux products. I like their mapping programs but the fact that I have
to run it under VMWare (since I haven't booted Windows natively for over
two years) is disappointing to say the least. Actually, it sucks. I love
VMWare, but I hate the fact that I have to use it. ;-/
Surprisingly enough, I got an answer back. Unfortunately, they
don't seem to have any plans to port to Linux. Tammy (the person responding
to me) did ask that if I knew of any other Linux users (ROTFL) to ask them
to email them at suggest@delorme.com.
Ask and yea shall receive! Just be careful what you ask for,
you might just get it!
I haven't sent anything up to Slashdot since the Slashdot effect
would be a bit of overkill. However, I'm sure that there are plenty of
Linux Enthusiasts on this list who would be willing to spred the word and
to accomdate them and let them know up at suggest@delorme.com.
I would recommend including a copy of her message (below) however,
just so everyone there knows that they did ask for our response. :-)
I would also recommend NOT hitting her personal address. She was
nice enough to respond to me so I would hate to have her flooded with
messages that should have gone to their suggest address.
Feel free to forward this message to other APPROPRIATE forums
that I may have missed!
Regards,
Mike
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(The Mad Wizard) | (770) 331-2437 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
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----- Forwarded message from Tammy Sproch ">TammyS@delorme.com> -----
From: Tammy Sproch ">TammyS@delorme.com>
To: ale@ale.org
To: "'Michael H. Warfield'" ">mhw@wittsend.com>
Cc: Info_Log ">Info_Log@delorme.com>
Subject: RE: Why no Linux products?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:10:43 -0500
Return-Receipt-To: Tammy Sproch ">TammyS@delorme.com>
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
Mr. Warfield,
Thank you for your inquiry. At this time we do not have any plans to format
our products to the Linux platform. I will send a suggestion to our Suggest
Department and hopefully they will take this into consideration when they
are looking for future updates. The more people that request this platform,
the greater the chance of DeLorme considering it. So, if you know any other
Linux users, ask them to email us at ">suggest@delorme.com and maybe in the
future it will pay off.
Thank you
Tammy
> ----------
> From:         Michael H. Warfield[SMTP:">mhw@wittsend.com]
> Sent:         Thursday, March 23, 2000 10:34 PM
> To:         ">suggest@delorme.com
> Subject:         Why no Linux products?
>
> When are you going to have Linux products?
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | ">mhw@WittsEnd.com
> (The Mad Wizard) | (770) 331-2437 |
> http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
> NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all
> PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
>
>
>
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