Eh, I view Kindle DRM as more of a irritating placebo - it’s so trivially easy to break and calibre can basically convert the resulting mobi file to whatever you want. It’s like CSS in that way - the publishers and their shareholders can feel that they’re doing what needs doing to stamp out the evils of piracy, but anyone with a modicum of Google-savvy can get around it and use their product freely.
For those wanting to avoid the Kindle hardware, it’s still a damn fine e-reader, and as others have said, you never need to actually purchase DRM’d books. Manage it with calibre and you’ll be fine.
