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Originally Posted by khalleron
Some of us believe that words have actual meanings, and not just the ones you want to assign to them.
Language: it's purpose is to communicate and not to twist so that you think you're winning a losing argument.
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Would that explain why you claimed you refuse to buy a Kindle because
Amazon is a closed ecosystem?
Neglecting to note that Kobo is also a closed ecosystem.
I believe I am being perfectly consistent, as I have stated my belief out in the open that any format for which there is a published spec is an open format, regardless of who used it first. Reverse-engineering is a perfectly valid way of breaking open a format.
Nor am I the only person to hold this opinion.
Which is more than I could say for you, getting indignant about closed systems and then buying a Kobo, which is a closed system.
Kobo
- sells DRMed books to the same extent Amazon does -- closed ecosystem.
- uses an internal proprietary and reverse-engineered (open to me, closed to you) KEPUB format.
I await your belated explanation for the disparity.
(I couldn't care less what you think, but please do not share your FUD with others.)