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Did you steal your device from the store? I bought mine.
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The device? Yes. The source code? No
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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.
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And tons of companies don't, as the companies I've worked all my career.
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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.
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I am not either but, as an application built over linux, I don't think they have to publish the code (using linux doesn't imply all your source code built over linux should be open source and distributed).
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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...
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But you're mixing a SO as Android or Linux with an application. I don't think Kobo is interested in encourage development as it gives them no advantage. I doubt some people developing some apps over Kobo is going to contribute to sell a lot more of Kobo out of an environment like this (and even here).