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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
Yeah, the company is going to give the software for free....
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Did you steal your device from the store? I bought mine.
Besides, tons of companies do exactly that. Your phone (assuming it's an Android phone, like about 80% of the phones out there) probably runs free software and you can often access the source code directly, which makes it easy to hack and extend, creating this amazing ecosystem of apps. I host the source code of wallabako on a Github alternative that publishes their source code for free as well - you could host your own Gitlab instance if you wished.
So yeah, there's no reason why Kobo wouldn't publish that source code, in my opinion - they published part of it, for free too.. I also suspect that *not* releasing it may be breaking some license agreements, but i haven't looked into this in details, and I am not a lawyer so i don't wish to get into this particular endeavor right now.
But getting access to the source code would be a great way to encourage development. That, or at least providing clear specifications, documentation and APIs...