Thread: Development No News on an SDK?
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Old 02-09-2011, 11:49 AM   #36
StevenP
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Originally Posted by nprnncbl View Post
It just occurred to me that there might be another reason for delaying an SDK: might there license restrictions from Adobe pertaining to use of their DRM? Maybe Entourage needs to ensure that you can't defeat the DRM by screen-scraping the e-ink side; maybe Adobe has to approve their SDK to ensure that; maybe Entourage can't discuss it because of an NDA. Maybe that's why they disabled root access via adb. Who really knows?

Yet another reason I despise DRM: enforcing it requires locking down the system.
Very good points.