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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Neither my ereader (Pocketbook) nor my Linux-based PC will officially support Amazon ebooks. So, yes, I'm obviously on the other side of that wall (and couldn't care less, just making a principle point here).
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I use linux and I still support Amazon.
You may not dual boot, but that's always an option. Or, use a VM running Windows. Don't want to support MS even that much? Wine + Kindle for PC.
There are worse content locks than whatever Amazon used to write Kindle for PC. The two that constantly frustrate me? Anything that requires Silverlight or .Net. In my case, that's both Amazon and Netflix's streaming services, and EA Downloader (for Electronic Arts games).
They just don't run and there's _no_ work-around. I'm sure other people have other software that is impossible to run under linux. These days, anything that runs reasonably cleanly under Wine (including alternatives like PlayOnLinux or Crossover) is a "win" in my book.
Now, if you want to remove DRM while only running Linux, I'd be right with you (if you wanted to work up enough "care" to be pissed with Amazon). Then again, they're probably not too concerned about that
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