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Old 03-05-2011, 03:16 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by wodin View Post
No, but it could be. It's only a suggestion of one possible scenario. If Amazon gave away crippled Kindles that really did lock you into buying from them, would you complain? And if you wanted a more open version; well, that'll be $139 please.
Kindle is a Linux device and there are Adobe DRM epub readers for Linux, so it would not be impossible to install it on jailbreaked Kindle. Jailbreaking is declared legitimate by courts, right? In practice it is not done simply because removing DRM is too trivial to even bother going the fully legal path. Thanks to selfless software developers, my Kindle can read epub and some other formats.

Therefore the free Kindle is very unlikely unless this offer is connected with some other obligations in which case it is not free.
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