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Originally Posted by Godzil
Why it will be the best way? If bookeen do a firmware that will run from a SD card, it's an open door to copy their firmware on other hardware clones. I seriously doubt they will do this at anytime.
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Clearly you have no concept of how hardware-specific these ereader OSes are. The biggest problem with OpenInkpot is that the device drivers for the BeBook are different from that of the Kindle are different from that of the Cybook are different from that of the Sony, ad nauseum. So there is little guarantee that a BeBook mini will be able to run the Opus firmware. Yet, for the Hanlin V3 series devices, (BeBook, etc.) OI *does* work well in run-from-SD-card mode.
But given the relatively small amount of RAM available on the older e-ink devices, it's difficult to provide enough driver flexibility to guarantee that a Bookeen-developed firmware will run on a non-Bookeen device. (You can't really have the OS decide on run-time which drivers to load *AND* have enough space for ebooks on the SD card.)
No, I don't see that to be a realistic problem for Bookeen (owners of other devices 'stealing' Bookeen firmware for use on their devices).
Derek