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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Kobo is in violation of the GPL. Wow. So is everyone else, for example Amazon.
Kobo doesn't offer linux users a desktop client. Neither does anyone else. As a linux user, I have learned to deal with it.
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The boox system runs on pure Andriod. I don't think they are in violation of the GPL.
They decided to go to Android because if they released their source for regular linux, other people would clone and steal it (according to one of their reps here on mobile forums); so by going to generic Andriod they hoped to not have to do development on the OS.
I just don't use andriod....
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I strongly advise you to use the Kobo registration hack,
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I already did that.
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and sideload all your books after being decontaminated via Apprentice Alf's tools. Again, Adobe Digital Editions is perfectly stable under WINE on linux, and is available as an easy-to-use winetricks verb. Instructions for running the DeDRM through WINE are in the respective tools readmes.
Kobo allows you to download your books from their website using Adobe Digital Editions.
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OK. That's something I didn't know. If Adobe Digital Editions allows you to download onto a Linux system from the KOBO store -- then that's a decent work around for the credit card issue. Still, KOBO is shooting themselves in the foot -- by forcing people to use a system the DE-DRM's the books. I'd rather just make the wireless module on the KOBO require a password if more than 120 seconds have passed since the last usage, but without logging out the user. It's a cleaner solution to the problem because authors want the DRM on there to protect their works from being copied multiple times by unauthorized users. If my reader got stolen, and the books have no DRM -- that makes it possible for the theif to take the work off the reader and copy it.
I'd rather not reward anyone for stealing by making it simpler for them ; it's really best so that the system is more protected/work to crack than it's worth to a common theif, and if KOBO had followd the GPL fully -- I'd have little problem doing it the right way in the first place.