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Old 10-11-2004, 10:29 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Morpheus
The very fact that Pepper runs Linux makes it one of the most promising e-book readers out there! As long as they don't use proprietary code for implementing DRM a la Sony Librie.
Don't be so sure that because it runs on Linux, that you'll get source, or that it will be "free" (or "Free"), or that it will be under some OSS-approved license.

Lots of proprietary pieces of software run on Linux, and the number is increasing every day. Oracle and VMware are two that immediately come to mine. There are dozens of others as well.
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