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Old 08-25-2010, 07:43 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by mSSM View Post
I do not think that Pocketbook will open up their firmware anytime soon. Releasing their firmware would mean that other vendors could take it and put on their devices (depending on the licensing, of course). Pocketbook making money by selling their hardware, first of all, cannot be interested in such a thing, since after all a high-quality ebook reader is nothing without its firmware.

I much rather see Amazon open up Kindle's firmware, because they see their device mainly as a means to establish themselves as the main ebook platform.

So - it's rather unrealistic, don't you think?

(Don't get me wrong, I am a GNU/Linux proponent myself, but I am trying to be realistic here...)
We are perfectly willing to take all the necessary steps to simplify access to programming apps for PB. It is a bit unrealistic, though, to think that we could or would organize hubs and so on ourselves. We are willing to assist anyone willing to establish anything like a user community with what this task may include. But we can't assign anyone of our programmers to do that. We are even inclined to pay hosting or things like that and try to get better documentation, but a user community should be just that.
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