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Re: mobile computers vs. software freedom


From: Alfred M. Szmidt
Subject: Re: mobile computers vs. software freedom
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:04:37 -0400

    >> E-book readers are very popular now.  It sometimes happens that you
    >> want to read some stuff on your way to work.  However, PDF is hard
    >> to read on such devices because font is small even on big screens
    >> and when you zoom in margins are lost.  PDF is hard to convert to
    >> anything else so I wonder if it wasn't a good idea to publish GNU
    >> manuals in EPUB as well.  It's an open standard and may be even more
    >> popular in the future.

    > Are there any e-book readers that only run free software?

           I wonder, if there's /any/ mobile computer that doesn't rely on
           at least a tiny bit of non-free software?

The Lemote laptops, and desktop computers don't use any non-free
software.



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