Sorry I'm late to the party guys. I'll go ahead and entertain the OP. Sorry if I'm repeating anything.
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So by being party to it's monopolising electronic text store and electronic reader, I am compromising myself to their electronic texts and paper publications completely that could have negative things.
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If I understand correctly, you're saying Amazon has a monopoly on ereaders and ebooks and that could have "negative things." I won't get into the whole monopoly definition thing again, so for the sake of arguments, let's say Amazon has a monopoly on ebook readers and ebooks. What are these "negative things"? Do you mean they can start charging high prices for books? Publishers know that the number 1 competitor to any electronic content is piracy. If Amazon kills all competition (B&N for example) and start charging insane prices knowing that they're the only choice, people will start stealing more and they'll lose business.
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Using an alternative operating system on the Amazon electronic readers is better because then the Amazon store monopoly goes and the every action has a reaction burden is reduced. The corporate tie-in is disrupted and this provides consumer choice to shop at another electronic text store.
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Again, let's say for the argument that Duokan is an "operating system." You still need to purchase a Kindle to use it and purchasing a Kindle makes you "party to it's monopolising ... electronic reader." Duokan doesn't have it's own ebook store, so you may still end up buying ebooks from Amazon. If you don't buy ebooks from amazon and end up using an alternative ebook store, there's no point of Duokan because Amazon's own "operating system" supports un-drmed content. You can also convert un-drmed EPUBs. Either way, you still bought a Kindle and amazon got your money. If you truly don't want to support Amazon, don't buy the Kindle. Using an alternative "OS" doesn't "harm" them in any way.
You shouldn't believe everything you read. "wesleyer" said "as far as he KNOWS", amazon can't install anything while you're in Duokan. That's not true. Duokan is just an application that runs on the Kindle before the Java kindle firmware from Amazon (Kindlet, the GUI you see). They still have low level control. They still receive logs if they want. Your Kindle is still seen by them and is registered to your account. The only way to lose all connection with amazon is to disable wireless.
Now, OP is misusing a lot of terms, but arguing on those terms is pointless. Just allow him to define "monopoly" what he wants and "operating system" as he wants. His general idea is that Amazon is too big and we should not give them business anymore as that would kill the competition and Amazon can have free reign over the ebook market. Let's keep the argument to this.