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Originally Posted by Hellmark
It really wouldn't take much for them to make a version of Kindle 4 PC for Linux. Heck, Wine allows for compiling windows apps with linux support, so it would appear to be a linux native app.
As far as requiring different versions for different distros, not necessarily true. It is very possible to make apps for linux that will work the same across multiple distros. The biggest thing to allow for that is to statically link the libraries. Usually where issues come in, is where the app is dynamically linked, and is expecting a certain version of a library at a specific location, and it isnt there or is a different version. If you statically link, the libraries needed are compiled into the same file, with the end result is an app that will run the same on different machines, but be a bit bigger.
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reasonable for use but I would say it's not as trivial as implied. If it was it would be done. Also what happens when a statically linked library that included in the compiled/tokenized app no longer function due to some change in the original branch/distro of that version of Linux?
And I think that is one of the primary points I was trying to make. It's a moving target. Add to that if some of the code used in the main app can even be ported to Linux or a given mobile device all due to those copyrights (aka license agreements) which dictate when and where the licensed code can be run.