Hi Don, at the risk of making this thread even longer...
Yes, ebook readers tend to use Linux. Nicer brands even publish development kits ;-) But Linux is a whole OS. So as long as Amazon publishes any changes to the kernel with sources, they can run any of their closed source, DRM protected document viewers they want on their box. Or you just buy another brand without DRM, of course. Another "fun case" was the modem chip in some smartphone, I think even one by Apple. It took some GPL enthousiasts some lengthy discussions to get ENOUGH sources for the firmware to be able to understand their embedded Linux. Seems it was some Qualcomm Quectel module, also used in iPhone 5, among others (EC20 MDM9615). There is a talk about it: "Dissecting Modern (3G/4G) Cellular Modems". Cheers, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
