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Re:FSF announces publication of two new books by Richard Sta... by gmartres on Saturday May 07, 2011 @05:16PM (#2524580)
How is mobi more closed than pdf? It seems to be well documented: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/MOBI
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Re:FSF announces publication of two new books by Richard Sta... by sandal on Saturday May 07, 2011 @05:36PM (#2524634)
PDF is an ISO standard. The issue is more the DRM restrictions on the Kindle than it is the MOBI format itself.
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Re:FSF announces publication of two new books by Richard Sta... by jonhendry on Saturday May 07, 2011 @08:29PM (#2524954)
The kindle doesn't have any DRM restrictions. Those are on the books Amazon sells. Files you obtain otherwise and put on the Kindle don't magically get DRM'd.
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Re:FSF announces publication of two new books by Richard Sta... by sandal on Saturday May 07, 2011 @09:50PM (#2525051)
That's true (I'm actually working on an ebook generation library that does PDF, ePUB, and MOBI), but most books that most people will read on the Kindle do have that DRM. That's what I meant by DRM restrictions on the Kindle.

If it sounded like I was saying that the device itself forces DRM, that's not what I meant.

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Re:FSF announces publication of two new books by Richard Sta... by protomyth on Saturday May 07, 2011 @05:34PM (#2524630)
I wouldn't exactly call mobi closed, but PDF is an ISO standard(1) and mobi is not backed by any standard organization.

1) http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1141

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