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@Matthijs
I really liked you guys at iRex, I got on very well with Karel and Angel and the little contact I had with you was also rather pleasant.
However, I have to agree with ali...
I'm not a programmer myself, but I have been following the whole SDK/Sources thing from the beginning...and the release dates were postponed again and again. Might be that you will actually make it this time, but it won't repair the damage that is already done.
As for developers jumping ont he released sources...well...they did in a way, but since it does not really make a lot of sense to develop a PDF viewer that is going to be useless once the next Frimware release is out, I can understand why there was not really that much interest.
What developers need (as far as I can tell, not being one) is the complete system, a way to test apps and a way to safely restore the system if something goes wrong.
Developing a PDF viewer is your job, developing additional software could be the community job, but working blind and using security holes and grudgingly granted "hack access" is not everybody's glass of beer.
There is no reason why you shoul offer a SDK, nobody can force you, but if you want the device to be open (as advertised) and want people to develop for it (as advertised) you'll have to put the cards on the table. If you had done it right from the start, maybe that would have sped development of the Iliad along, if you do it now, perhaps it'll still work, but much trust has been lost and many users and developers have been dissappointed, so i'm not sure how it will work out now.
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