[ghostwheel]

scotty's leaving is very sad! I say this even though I have a sony reader, and not an Iliad. I was hoping for scotty/iRex/others to improve the iliad software, specifically battery life, suspend, and djvu support, so I could get the iliad with its high resolution screen.

I have been following the iliad for a long time, and even with Karel's comments, I have to put a lot of the blame on iRex. Development for the iliad has been an uphill battle from the beginning. It started even before the iliad was released, but after release, iRex seemed to really try to do their best to keep developers off the iliad. Starting with the lack of inclusion of an easy way to reflash it when stuck. Closing the iliad so that logging in and file access was impossible. The continuing battle with the developers, closing every loophole the developers found and were using to develop software on the ilad in successive firmware releases. Has an exploit for the iliad ever surfaced? Was it likely to? Why then this fixation on fixing these unimportant loopholes when much more serious problems exist on the iliad? No timely release of the gpl required source code, closing the rest of the code (who will steal this code? Who is iRex protecting itself from). iRex is slowly learing from their mistakes - things seem to be much better now then they were at the beginning.

Please, iRex, realize: the open-source developer community are your friends! Do your best to cooperate with them. Give them all the tools they need to help you make the iliad better.