Thanks Gents! You ave shed additional light on a rather complicated subject.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 6:24 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > 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 >
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