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Old 05-24-2025, 09:40 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by FlamingPeaches View Post
That's frustrating. I wonder why they don't just open source it, seems more and more companies buy services and shut them down when they can't convert it to pure profit.
It looks as if most, if not all, of the Pocket client and back-end server code has finally been released on GitHub under open-source licenses now. It might not be easy, but Kobo could pick up the code and run the service itself.
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