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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
They could have chosen another direction and released the sources of the OS to the public. Even better, they could have supported an open development similar to how Nokia does it with the Maemo development environment for the Nokia 770. The benefits: faster development, much better support.
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oh, if it is really a Linux OS, I am sure we will see the sources. Otherwise it would be a breach of the License by which the Linux kernel (and several programs and libraries) is covered (GPLv2).
I don't want to say the GPL is the perfect license (cause i dont have the reputation to do that) for software developement, but if you use and adapt a GPL program to your needs, the GPL forces you to publish your modified source, if you didn't do it for internal use only.
And i don't think it would do damage to Irex. Look at the famous Linksys WRT54G wlan-router series. I bet Linksys is better of now, then it was before they were forced to publish the modified kernel sources.
And Irex or publishers of DRM-enabled readers don't need to publish the sources for their own libraries and programs, as long as they are not developed from a OpenSource component covered by a license which would force them to do that.