Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Free Software eBook reader

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 10 May 2010 12:24:30 +0200
address@hidden wrote:

> For those interested in Free Software eBook Reader, I wanted to
> share the following information:

This should probably have gone to -user. (it is interesting too, but
-user will probably have more people to look at it).
kk

> "InLibroVeritas, the famous francophone free publisher (publishing  
> particularly framabook books) offers to sell an electronic book
> reader.
> 
> The 'e-Reader InLibroVeritas Opus', manufactured by french company  
> Bookeen, is based on electronic ink technology, that is found  
> especially among its competitor the Amazon Kindle.
> 
> However, the e-Reader InLibroVeritas Opus stands out not only for
> its portability (with the standard USB mass storage, thus compatible
> with Microsoft, Mac, [GNU/]Linux and others), but also by its lack of
> DRM and its free [GNU/]Linux-based firmware . This reader,
> corresponding to the ideal of free culture has been naturally
> selected by the ILV publisher. The founder of ILV, Mathieu Pasquini,
> explains why they have thus made "the choice of supporting two French
> companies that have clearly opted for an open future, free software
> technology, free arts, going against the tide of global majors"."
> 
> Translated approximately from french page at  
> http://linuxfr.org/2010/05/08/26828.html.
> 
> I browsed licenses in the source code and all is under GPLv2 or
> GPLv2+ ;)
> 
> Christophe



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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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