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Old 03-30-2013, 12:31 AM   #19
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One slight correction: the MOBI and KF8 formats are not "mostly proprietary." They're entirely proprietary and owned by Amazon.
Not entirely. AFAIK, the original PalmDoc format on which it is based was documented by Palm, so a big chunk of the Mobi format is not proprietary... just not enough of it to actually create one viably without significant reverse engineering.


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Also... "near monopoly" is rather meaningless in terms of legality.
In terms of legality, "almost" counts. Just ask Microsoft.
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