Re: Garmin Mapsource version 6.xx beta has a time bomb - it shut down and refused to operate


Dirk Straka wrote in message <1f858rt82umzv$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
>David Lee wrote:
>
>> Manfred Handschuher wrote...
>>>> Just to let any mapsource users out there know that Garmin puts
>>>> a time bomb in their beta software releases so it won't run
>>>> after a few days.
>>> My beta version automatically loaded the following beta and that
>>> one the official version. Don't know where your problem is.
>> Try thinking - it helps! ;-)
>
>Try thinking - it helps!
>
>These are BETA versions! Garmin's statement for betas: "Although
>this software is believed to be reliable, it has not yet been
>released for production and should be used at your own risk."[1]
>
>Go and get a dictionary.
>
>Greets, Dirk
>

Seems to me that you have proven that Garmin lied when they said "believed
to be reliable" after they intentionally put a time delayed fatal defect
into the software yet didn't bother to mention it in their statement about
reliability.


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