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Originally Posted by NiMa
With the recent Libra Colour being locked down at bootloader stage and us not being able to hack it even after days of trying, we see no real point to continue Quill OS development as it is likely that newer devices will not be more kind than the current ones when it comes to software hacking.
Why maintain an OS if you know the hardware it runs on is just slowly going to get obsolete?
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I think you're being too pessimistic about the future of 3rd party addons on kobo.
There's no evidence whatsoever of kobo locking down the system to prevent 3rd party apps. Hell, kobo devices were not and are not meant to be secure by any metric. The are meant to be consumer commodities, who cares about it's security.
Rakuten as a company might care about their servers being hacked as everybody else. And should prevent their devices to be remotely exploited and its users data leaked. But there's no incentive for them to lockdown the userspace until Adobe requests it.
And, AFAIK, QuillOS is mostly a runtime, that would still work over stock bootloader and kernel. If you do some kernel patching to enable usb-host et al that's all that we will miss. The 99'9% of what the runtime provides would still be viable for those interested.
I think QuillOS is a pretty nice and fun project. It does provides a really awesome user experience for anybody that wants to run or port any app to their kobos. It's also an example on Qt platform abstraction.
Feel free to do whatever you want with your project, of course
, but do not jump from the boat just yet, at least for this reason.
Try to have fun while we're waiting for the lockdown. If that happens I'm sure many will jump with you. I'm one of those
