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[tompe]

Originally Posted by Abelturd

I understand, Harry, but that doesn't change anything on the fact that licensing makes it harder to add new features. You pay a lot of money for the license and yet you don't have full control over your software. As a developer the very idea would make me feel uncomfortable.

The reason is probably that they are forced to do it if they want to use the DRM system. Also since the MobiPocket format is secret (probably not specified at all and defined by what the common code from MobiPocket can handle) they cannot write there own code.

[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by tompe

The reason is probably that they are forced to do it if they want to use the DRM system. Also since the MobiPocket format is secret (probably not specified at all and defined by what the common code from MobiPocket can handle) they cannot write there own code.

Yeah. It's "secret". Unh-hunh. Sure.

Legally, it probably is, but technically, it's probably one of the most 'open' secrets around. I believe if it weren't for the aggressive legal protection done by Mobipocket, we'd have dozens of black-box implementations of the DRM'd version floating around - in a matter of weeks.

Derek

[tompe]

Originally Posted by delphidb96

Yeah. It's "secret". Unh-hunh. Sure.

Legally, it probably is, but technically, it's probably one of the most 'open' secrets around. I believe if it weren't for the aggressive legal protection done by Mobipocket, we'd have dozens of black-box implementations of the DRM'd version floating around - in a matter of weeks.

Derek

Please send me the specification for the meta format of a MobiPocket file then. You cannot do that because all details are not known and I suspect there does not exist a specification at all. What exists is one implementation.