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Old 05-12-2009, 02:17 PM   #138
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Originally Posted by wodin View Post
Are you saying I need to buy dedicated (and rather expensive in the scheme of things) hardware in order to run Linux reader software?

Isn't that defeating the mantra of "software should be free"?
My last post was really tongue and cheek, so don't read too much into it

FYI were you aware read eBooks on your linux based PRS-505.


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Isn't that defeating the mantra of "software should be free"?
Open source has never made this claim. They are perfectly fine with charging for source. What they claim is that software should be free as in "liberated". It is Richard Stallman's Gnu initiative that claims software should be both free "as in beer" and liberated.


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