[Ubuntu-be] Ubuntu en updates voor Mio GPS systemen

Thierry LOUDECHE thierry.loudeche at my.m1call.be
Sun Jul 29 21:37:03 BST 2007


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 <yellow.penguin at edpnet.be>:
> > > > 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 <thierry.loudeche at my.m1call.be>




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