Thread: 5.3 Update for Paperwhite -- will it interfere with the jailbreak?
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Old 11-17-2012, 11:39 AM   #133
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Originally Posted by pirl8 View Post
@eureka

KPW with special offers is only for the USA customers. Here in Europe the KPW is sold without the SO option. For the Kindle Touch it has been the same.

I jailbreaked my KT and patched it to have hyphenation support, better margin handling, better font support, better dictionary support and the ability to choose my screensavers. All this stuff has been provided for free by this great developer community. They did it for fun and not for money. And all of this stuff makes my kindle touch a much better device.

That's why i don't feel guilty at all for having jailbreaked my Kindle (it's mine after all, isn't it?) and that's why I blame Amazon for having denied their customer the opportunity to improve their device.

The wise choice should have been: "they kick ass: let's hire them, they could help selling more devices". Amazon has opted for an idiotic solution.
Don't worry, we, Kindle Touch owners, can easily use USB downloader mode for jailbreaking even if next KT firmware will lock the device in the spirit of 5.3.0.

I also don't feel guilty for jailbreaking my KT and I even helped to find one of three currently available methods for having 5.3.0 with jailbreak, though I don't own PW at all.

Lack of alternative, jailbreak-friendly official firmware for owners of Europe PW without SO is really disgusting. I guess, even owners of US devices will profit from existence of such firmware.

And I don't like missing of homebrew developers support too (let's skip subject of KDK which is restrictive and not available for general audience). But, hey, I don't know about any developer-friendly eReader on the market. And to be developer-friendly, it should be completely free ("free" as in "freedom") with official, vendor-supported way of gaining root aceess. I mean, really free, as Greenphone or Openmoko smartphones (Maemo devices are practically good too). And it should have stable, user-friendly open-sourced vendor firmware. Am I asking too much?

(Nook with Android is pretty close, but I don't want Android. I want plain old Linux Debian Sid.)
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