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Originally Posted by Ankh
But the text of my message said "The reader was popular and was hacked a lot...", which is not good enough. Without extensive reverse engineering, these readers can not be used to deploy pure OS solution (no ADI, no LRF support, OI or similar instead of Sony firmware). Hence, they are not "OSS friendly", as kartu and the rest of the devs have to live with (and struggle to overcome them) limits imposed by Sony.
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But in fairness these devices are not sold as general-purpose computing platforms, but as dedicated readers. One can hardly assign blame to the manufacturer for not providing development capabilities, can one?
I know that some reader manufacturers - Pocketbook, for example - do provide a software development kit for their readers, and encourage application development, but that's not the market sector that Sony are in. If you want an eInk device for software development, you'd have bought a Pocketbook device in the first place.