On 15/09/2020 13.19, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2020-09-15 05:36:06 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 15/09/2020 04.51, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2020-09-14 15:14:07 Carlos E. R. wrote:
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I have not tested C, it is an assumption.
Isn't it amazing, having to go through all of this just to get a real copy of a free book? This is a case of an industry that still thinks that all Linux users are pirates. The vendor of my favourite 3D Modeling package is the same; their software runs only on Windoze and Mac (though they do allow their background rendering to run on Linux, otherwise nobody in the 3D industry would use it).
You have to blame Adobe specifically, they refuse to publish Linux versions of their software.
In the past, they made Acrobat Reader for Linux, then they stopped. Why? What happened? Why do they hate us? Did we piss them?
And they don't make ADE available. It appears that version 17 could be run in wine, but how do we get it?
On the other hand, my Kobo Touch ereader, which runs Linux inside, says in the about page that it contains Reader® Mobile from Adobe. The DRM technology is theirs.
It's not that Adobe stopped making a Linux version of their reader, it's that they refused to plug the security holes in it, so most Linux distros dropped it and recommended that it not be used. From what I've read, Adobe is pretty cavalier about the quality of their code.
Well, they stopped updating their software years ago, it will not even run on Leap. It is abandonware. I don't know what holes it had at the time, but in any case, I was quite happy being able to run Acrobat Reader in Linux. Now I can't, and I need it.
My comment is more about the unavailability of ebook code readers for the Linux platform, and DRM issues in general. I have bought only two ebooks, which are DRMed, and AFAIK I can only read them using Amazon's web-based viewer, which is pretty pitiful. (If there's something else I can use that doesn't involve dedicated hardware or Windoze, please clue me in. :-) )
Well, again, blame Adobe. Only Adobe can make that software, I'm afraid, as they own the license (please, if somebody else knows otherwise, please tell). I was not aware that Amazon had a web-based viewer. The only solutions I know are using an old ADE 17 under Wine, or current ADE on Windows in a virtual machine. Oh, I forgot! perhaps ADE in a virtual Android machine. I have not tried this. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)