Re: Subscription to NASD CD-ROM (was: embedded ...)

["D.F.S." <dfs@xmission.com>]

> 
> You know what I WOULD be interested in for this data is something like the
> Flight Guide in my Palm Pilot.  It would not be something that I would be
> absolutely dependent upon but would find immensely useful.  (Flight Guide
> has "not for navigation" written all over it -- yeah, right.)  The platform
> is not Linux, although someone has made the Linux kernel run on the Palm,
> but it would be a very interesting use for the data.
> 
> 
All of these possibilities depend on the data being easily had for development 
and freely re-distributable.

I agree 100% that the Jepp Data is "Better" in a lot of ways.
I also said, I was going to use the Jepp view product,
(A CD version of the approach chart & map subscription)
I'm also going to have to buy the NavData for the GPS.
All in all I'll be sending close to a thousand bucks a year
to them.

But, a cute little whiz-bang flight guide for a palm pilot, or a
flight planning package, or an inflight info system distributed for 
free will be of little use, when people would be forced to fork
$300.00 over to jeppesen to licence the data.
In all probability would be quashed by jeppesen due to liability
concerns about untested, unverified, or hide-the-women-and-children
Open source code anybody could screw with.

I think maybe we are a bit overly "Linux" centered.
Write good, Portable C Code. it will compile fine under linux, and
also be portable to other platforms.
I don't think linux development needs to be so closed and xenophobic
to prevent writing portable software, except for Windows ;-).


Marc

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