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Originally Posted by HarryT
You've got me a little confused here, SmokeAndMirrors. You've said on a number of occasions that having an "open source" reader is a non-negotiable requirement. That surely implies getting a reader which has just that: open source reading software, does it not? The readers which fit your requirement would seem, therefore, to be those open source reading programs such as FBReader or CoolReader. That is, Pocketbook, Onyx, BeBook, etc. Those with Adobe ADE-based firmware cannot be described as "open source" in any way whatsoever; they are paying a licence fee to Adobe and the firmware is proprietary. Have you now dropped your "open source" requirement?
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For the 3rd time (possibly 4th? - but at any rate it's the last - pay attention), of the several ways in which open source couple be applied to e-readers, the single point that has been negotiable since the beginning is the firmware. That's mostly for practical reasons - same reason I have a small XP partition, which I only turn on about once a month.
In addition to that, I have also already said (twice on this one - seriously man, what gives?) that Kobo does appear to have open source firmware, either installed or available as a replacement from their lab.