Re: Ultimate GPS unit everyone should have?

From: Andy (/dev/null_at_localhost.net)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 03:43:39 GMT

Mark Hewitt wrote:
> "Gabriel Ebner" <ge@gabrielebner.at> wrote in message
> news:87is5uly8e.fsf@schnecke2.gabrielebner.at...
>
>>Nothing except missing documentation from the manufacturers.
>
>
> How did microsoft obtain the information? If the manufacturers gave
> Microsoft that information and withheld it from everyone else, I believe
> that would be illegal.

Microsoft obtained that information the easy way. They specified it.
Microsoft will only sell the PPC OS to you if you match certain hardware
requirements. The exact details of those requirements and the licensing
requirements for PPC are covered by NDA. Lets just say that they are strict.

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