Will send a message today to them. ASCII and ye shall RECEIVII :D
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 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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> ----- Forwarded message from Tammy Sproch ">TammyS@delorme.com> -----
>
> From: Tammy Sproch ">TammyS@delorme.com>
> 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
> >
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> > 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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