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Pizza_Cant_Read · 11-20-2017, 07:55 AM

Eh, 'open' has many connotations. I hate to sound live a sell out as Richard Stallman is a personal hero. Open source would be great, but providing an API to allow us to manage our collection or not intentionally stifling plugins like Kindle Collections or would show a certain benevolence as well. Even just the ability to sort by series would have been enough to avoid me ever bring it up.

To those familiar with the Open Source world - I know the difference between freedom and free beer. But with this application and device I would be satisfied with the free beer. We have all read about the animated cereal boxes...Kindles/Kobos/whatever are just a clunky stepping stone towards that future.

11-20-2017, 07:55 AM	#42
Pizza_Cant_Read Sentient Sauce Posts: 461 Karma: 2519794 Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: China Device: 9th Gen Oasis	Eh, 'open' has many connotations. I hate to sound live a sell out as Richard Stallman is a personal hero. Open source would be great, but providing an API to allow us to manage our collection or not intentionally stifling plugins like Kindle Collections or would show a certain benevolence as well. Even just the ability to sort by series would have been enough to avoid me ever bring it up. To those familiar with the Open Source world - I know the difference between freedom and free beer. But with this application and device I would be satisfied with the free beer. We have all read about the animated cereal boxes...Kindles/Kobos/whatever are just a clunky stepping stone towards that future. Last edited by Pizza_Cant_Read; 11-20-2017 at 08:06 AM.