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Originally Posted by Snuffi
I doubt that this is viable because if you have an official part for DRM and an open source part for the rest...
Much better would be to offer a FW entirely open sourced. It wouldn't be a problem really, for customer support you could always define a certain version number as the only supported one and if users flash newer versions or different branches they're on their own there. But in this case it's not possible because reader devices currently cannot do without supporting DRM (although that will hopefully change) and DRM can never be open-sourced.
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Sounds like the perfect solution would be an eReader-OS + a DRM-Reader + a developer kit (provided by the company). Then developers can come up with whatever software they like...
BTW: In that case it'd be even possible to have DRMed Mobi AND ePub on the device, because Mobi-license allows DRM for different formats on devices with installable software (e.g. PDAs, Smartphones etc.)!
