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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
But it is. How would you go about putting DRM on a platform that is as open as Maemo ? It will be hated and hacked to death simultaneously (and with a vengeance). It's a trade. You either close stuff down (and thereby shoot yourself in the foot with regard to linux and community support) or give up DRM. Anything inbetween, and the community will almost certainly polarize and ultimately result in one of those two scenarios anyway.
I'm not sure you're right. (Not sure I am either.)

It isn't as if all hackers are confined to a Linux island; so DRM providers would have the problem on other OSes, too. Is it technically that much harder to implement DRM with an open OS?

Linux people piss and moan about Skype because it's proprietary, but it's on the Tablets nonetheless. Does lack of community support doom Skype or would it doom DRM? It isn't as if the community would be looked to for furthering its development.

Let's stick to Kindle as an example. (I'd prefer, as a library lover and advocate, to use Overdrive, but Kindle is better known and maybe more relevant.) If Amazon created a Kindle client for Linux (or, specifically, Maemo), what would happen to Amazon's detriment that wouldn't happen if it created a Kindle client for Windows?