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Old 09-29-2008, 11:32 PM   #873
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
With most Open Source projects, it would be impossible to add DRM support - because most vendors won't release code for DRM decoding. However, there is one exception to the Open Source limitation - the authors of the Open Source code can distribute a binary only version that includes DRM processing.
I don't understand this. If I had a ebook business the required people to buy in my format to make money.... I would do everything I could to license the software to device makers. Including not charging a fee to license it. Perhaps to help develop it sure. If they DRM is based on a common encryption algorithm too then there is no danger in even providing a free reference implementation for it.

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