|
You know how you get your best ideas while on the bed? This morning, I as trying to get up and thought about porting software e-readers to other platforms.
Are there any user-made ports of Mobipocket? Of any other DRM'ed reader? I am no programmer, but I think porting a reader would probably mean breaking the DRM bit. And the moment this happens, they are gonna change the code. Look how fast Microsoft has corrected the security hole in their P(l)ay for Sure crap: from August 19th to August 28th.
Porting commercial formats to another system is only going to happen if the two parties cooperate. For instance, Mobipocket gets the SDK from iRex, AFTER they come to a formal agreement. Do I see Sony letting other formats into their baby? No, they need to control the food chain through their Connect Store.
|