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Originally Posted by tompe
Of course not. So what is your point? Do tou thing they have rewritten these drivers for the Cybook?
No, it is not. It is like selling a stolen car you have bought (expect that copyright infornement is not theft).
No. When you buy a book you get the permission to sell it further or to give it away. When you buy a book from somebody that does not have the right to sell the book you do not get that permission.
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First, I strongly doubt that Bookeen has modified the OS in the slightest. But I don't know this to be true.
Second, not it's not. There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of products out there which use some form of embedded Linux. Almost none of them state this to be the case, and I doubt many of them make any effort to let the customer have the source code to the OS - just try to get most auto-manufacturers to give you, the owner and driver of a car, that source code. Ain't gonna happen. (And you'd be surprised just how many makes and models use embedded Linux.) Same with refrigerators and toasters with embedded Linux. Yes, they *should* make the source code available, but they don't - and this has been going on long enough and widely spread enough that you'd have a hard time winning a court battle.
Third, anyone has the right to sell their personal copy of a book. What they don't have the right to do is steal the contents and market as their own work or use that copy to create other copies for sale.
Derek