Thread: Is Adobe DRM epub endangered?
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Old 06-25-2010, 12:29 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by dougf4 View Post
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Much like Mozilla has done against Microsoft with the Firefox browser and Linux continues to do against Windows, I suspect that many of the now chosen formats and readers will remain as viable. Open Source rebels will dash to the rescue to deny total victory to the Amazonians. In dribs and drabbles enough money will still be spent on non-Amazon/B&N formats to keep things moving in a northerly direction.

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I wonder if you see the irony here, both Amazon and B&N built their proprietary eReaders on Open Source Linux/Android. B&N even built the book format on an open standard. Yet both are closed systems because of their DRM.

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