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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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.) |
Once again, I don't make up my own definitions, so I don't have to defend them.
I certainly don't have to defend YOURS.
Not only do I not have to buy books from Kobo because I own a Kobo, but I can still use books I bought from vendors that no longer exist (such as Sony and Fictionwise) WITHOUT CONVERSION OR DRM BREAKING.
If that fits your personal definition of 'closed system' then I have no idea what you would mean by an 'open' one.