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Originally Posted by High 5
... The Iliad is and never was intended solely for the purpose of satisfying the tweek, fiddle and upgrade itches that the techie types constantly seem to suffer from.
It was meant for the simple dolts like me who are impressed with their own abillity to form letters into -sometimes intelligu intelligla..intelligalbl- into words. 
It may be true that the geek section of this forum is much larger that the dolt section, but I very much doubt this to be true for all the buyers from Irex.
The Iliad has always been advertised as an ebook reader, not a gamesconsole, pda or coffee making machine.
Now, I have seen some of the work the geeks have done for the dolts on the Iliad.
It was mostly about as user friendly as a head-on collision with a Sherman tank  for little ol'e simpletons like me.
I don't think Irex should have taken extra care to make the Iliad an ongoing project for the the geeks.
It should also not have taken four tries to get a good working Iliad to Scotty but sometimes shit just happens and especially so with new hightech stuff like this. ... |
Well, the license for a lot of the inner works of the iLiad is GPL and therefore they have to make it a "ongoing project for geeks" i.e. publish the sources and, depending on the point of view, also a tool to reflash. However, the second one can be argued about, as this depends on the interpretion of the GPL.
If there was a way to reflash the iLiad at home, development would probably be easier, you wouldn't have to fear bricking it and paying 75 EUR for a reflash.