Amazon Kindle Software Available as Open Source? Not Really. No eBook Bits

I got pretty excited when I read this title on TechCrunch…

Want The Kindle Source Code? You Can Have It.

So, I headed over to…

Amazon.com Source Code Notice

…which has source code for the original Kindle, Kindle 2 and Kindle DX. I downloaded the compressed tarball for the Kindle DX, unpacked it and started taking a look at the code. You can see the unpacked files in the screenshot above. As may be able to tell, the Kindle DX tarball contains other tarballs.

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