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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Open by modern standards, definitely. Open by the standards that you laid out, no. The thing that you have to keep in mind is that Kobo devices lack documentation from Kobo, yet very few of their other practices can be considered as restrictive.
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But without an open source system we have to trust Kobo not become more restrictive and not to introduce changes that break community add ons. Recently firmware 2.5.1 broke community dictionaries; fortunately for us Kobo reverted the change and custom dictionairies are working again in 2.5.2. What if they decided, for corporate reasons, not to allow custom dictionaries, or any of the other add ons?
Have Kobo ever officially declared they want to support the community extensions, or at least make them possible? It seems to me that they turn a blind eye. But what if someone released alternative reader software for kepubs? I suspect Kobo would act to try to shut it down by changing the firmware so the alternative no longer worked.