January 22, 2009 13:17
AugustH Wrote:As a former government engineer...Oh please.
Government employees don't have to earn their living by actually providing something that their customers need. Software developers do. At least the ones who are actually earning a living by developing software.
You, me, and Mr. MacENC are significantly smaller than Raymarine, Furuno, Garmin, etc. We don't get to tell them what to do. We shouldn't be telling our customers that "they" don't follow all of the specs so that's why our software doesn't work with it. That's BS and just plain poor support.
Anyone can put a "Raymarine" switch into their export function so that it can handle the differences that they have put into their devices. There are a variety of other ways that it can be handled as well. Just saying that "they don't follow the rules" is being a little too much of a cry baby. At least for us in the real world.
Frankly, it doesn't bother me in the slightest if you or Rich don't want to see MacENC work with most of the marine navigation hardware out there. Someone else will gladly step in and support the customers out there.