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At a minimum, PocketBook should release enough source code so that an open source firmware project could be done for their devices. I know they have released the kernel source code but is this sufficient for this to happen? If they don't want to release their own firmware code, then it would be nice to know that someone could make an alternative should PocketBook decide to stop supporting the products at some point. To me a big part of the appeal of a project like OLPC (which makes an OK e-book reader) is that every bit of code on the machine from the bootloader up is open source and if OLPC as a project goes belly up, I or someone else can still release any changes we want.
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