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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
As I pointed out before, LRF is just a compiled version of a published XML spec. If SONY intended to maintain a monopoly on the production of ebooks, they really shouldn't have published the spec.
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Yeah, oh I agree.. and given that I only run Linux at home, THANK YOU for such a wonderful tool.
It's weird. Sony is such a hydra. If this was the PSP, they'd be all over you for that tool.
I'm a software engineer, and I remember when the DMCA came out, we had to republish all our open protocols and file formats and explicitly tell people how to use them if we wanted them to remain open. It was a pain in the rear, but we were told we had to do this if we wanted people to adopt the format.
Anywho, back to work, and sorry for derailing the conversation. My point grew into a mountain.. and I return to my original point. It's NOT black and white. Not when you involve a myriad of nations all with different laws and ideas.