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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
One slight correction: the MOBI and KF8 formats are not "mostly proprietary." They're entirely proprietary and owned by Amazon.
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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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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Also... "near monopoly" is rather meaningless in terms of legality.
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In terms of legality, "almost" counts. Just ask Microsoft.