-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Zaleski ]
Posted At: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:32 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: Dauntless Safelog - is there a way to export data to CSV
format?
Subject: Dauntless Safelog - is there a way to export data to CSV
format?

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Dauntless software stands on it's own merits. They have no
responsibility to make it exportable to some other format. If you
don't like their current platform, that is your own personal problem,
It's like asking Windows XP to make their product compatible with Mac.
There is no legal or moral requirement to do so. Do you expect
Microsoft to continue to make DOS 2.0 stuff workable with whatever you
want it to operate with? Same flawed logic and expectation.

Bill, don't obfuscate the issue. The premise of the thread was that
Dauntless has designed an application that once you start using it you
must continue or risk losing your personal data.

There are no "compatibility" issues here, there are no cross application
issues here. The entire premise is that Dauntless has designed a tool
that apparently does not allow the use the right to change their mind,
dump their data into a format that Dauntless itself uses to import, and
take their business elsewhere.

Unless someone can show how that premise is wrong, then I have to agree
with the original poster that Safelog is of limited value (due to
transportability) and once started extorts future payments from the
users by holding personal data hostage.

Quit defending the company based on your personal needs and look at the
bigger issue of use in the general population.

If you can show how Safelog dumps its data into a commonly accepted
format like CSV, or tab delimited, or pipe delimited, or whatever other
commonly accepted format they might wish to support, then I'll gladly
apologize for anything I've written here that is incorrect. Right now
however, no one wants to prove Safelog exports data and instead wants to
argue unrelated obscure topics.