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Originally Posted by Sgt.Stubby
When an open product is repackaged/bundled as a proprietary one, it loses quality, versatility, usefulness, and trustworthyness.
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No. There is the POTENTIAL for all those things to be true, but in practice, well-funded proprietary projects often yield a far better user experience in all those areas, for most typical consumers. Professionals with a financial interest in the success of a consumer product often produce better stuff.
Compare, say, the consumer usability of MythTV vs. Tivo. MythTV users happily spend their time on tech forums maintaining their systems. Tivo users just happily use their DVRs for it's intended purpose.
Or more relevant to this forum, compare the success and consumer satisfaction of Kindle or Nook users vs OpenInkPot users...oh, wait...ARE there any OpenInkPot users?
So regardless of whether you meant this thread to be about ereaders or tablets, the word in the title that seem to be the root of your problems is "anyone." By "anyone" you apparently meant "advanced Linux hobbyists."
You seem to misunderstand the nature of the population of the world.
Substituting what you apparently meant:
"Why would advanced Linux hobbyists want Android OS on an eink reader?"
The answer would be: They wouldn't, particularly, I'd think.