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Originally Posted by johnnyb
They only released the sources after they were threatened with legal action because of GNU violation.
but this is not what concerns me. They were told for three or four years that annotations and hightlights should either be exportable or better, written in the file. What they have been doing for all this years is keep on using the Adobe engine, ignoring the first option and blaming the lack of the second option on the engine. They are just cheap.
And yeah, they managed to brick the update engine with an update once and only offered a solution after a user wrote one for them. Pathetic...
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this is one thing that I can not understand, why would somebody bother with writing software for these devices when Android is already out there. I am not familiar with the costs for distributing your devices with Android but I assume that if Barnes & Nobles could do it for less than 150$ (nook touch) it should not be killing for Onyx either. In this case all they would have to do is to care for the hardware drivers and make money on selling the hardware... I bet that it costs them more to develop and maintain the software than paying for Android. I do realize that what I am saying above might be just an uneducated opinion. The things can be more complicated
Coming back to your point ...I believe that they had many other problems to fix (hardware problems for instance) and I do not think that is easy ... What you were asking was to add new features or to improve existing while they had problems with fixing what they had sold...