Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Jun 2009 22:49 UTC
"As my colleague Michelle Menga is reporting, Amazon is now making new source code available for its Amazon Kindle. Basically what it represents is, Amazon's responsibility to make the GPL licenced source code that is used in the Kindle available to others. That's part of the GPL license and Amazon is doing its part. Digging into the code that Amazon is now making available, provides some really interesting insight into the underlying structure of the Kindle."
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2006-02-16
Then again, FSF completely disregards the fact that Amazon sells a SERVICE, Kindle is an utility to run that service and therefore it's required to be closed to a point to ensure the hardware is used for THAT Service. By opening up the hardware for everyone they'd make themselves vulnerable for competition to use the hardware for the competitions service.
Dunno how to explain this any simplier.