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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Do I have problems with Windows? No, far from it. But, I like the philosophy of Linux / Unix much more, and would prefer to use that. However, doing so would make me largely incompatible with other people I *have* to work with.
And what does it have to do with ebooks?
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Do you like the philosophy of
free when you say linux? You know, you don't
have to run open source software on linux, you can but you don't have to. If you like it because of open-source, more power to you. Ebooks? If you like the philosophy of free, and I am not talking about DRM-free, but public domain - then you have choices. Literally so many choices that you will never be able to read em all. If you strip DRM from a book that is sold only with DRM, because the author so chooses, then you still
support the author. And don't be illusioned by the thought that only because you would never distribute a un-drmed book, that others won't. You want a book that has DRM, you either choose Amazon which you don't like because they use mobi, or you choose Adobe which you also don't like because of Photoshop having more things than Gimp. OR, you choose not to get that book/author/series, forget about it, and search for a PD writer.
To clarify: By public domain writer I would also include older books where the copyright expired and they fell into public domain by default. Though technically they were not PD writers when they were alive.