Thread: 5.3 Update for Paperwhite -- will it interfere with the jailbreak?
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Old 11-14-2012, 09:41 AM   #96
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Originally Posted by geekmaster View Post
If you have locked 5.3.0 on your PW, that makes it a lot less useful. If amazon has you locked down, you lost control of your own device, and amazon now controls what you can do with it.

From our point of view, 5.3.0 hijacks and steals ownership of your device.
It also puts this forum into the position of "Legacy Device Support".
Where a "Legacy Device" is one prior to those running the 5.3.0 firmware.

It is true that Amazon still sells some devices that fall into the above description of a "Legacy Device" but those will certainly be phased out over time. (Or get their own "lockdown" firmware version.)

When, if ever, Amazon adopts the attitude of LinkSys (top of page banner):
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
I might regain my interest in their products.

For myself, I intend to buy a paperback book today.
Amazon can go piss up a rope for all I care.
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