listerOfSmeg

not going to happen it s the only thing they have and they know its a cash cow if it gets wide adoption unfortunately they have gotten greedy and no one will pay it.

They also seem to think their market is digital signage and aren't that interested in licensing for other mass market consumer products despite the fact the market it has been adopted most in is e-readers

E-ink is one of those techs that only advanced when large batches of patents expire. E-ink the company has tied up the tech stack in so many patents, NDA's, and exorbitant prices that no one wants to touch it. E-ink the technology wont go any where for 10-15 years when that next big batch of patents expire. Its just like 3D displays and VR there will be a massive consumer push new batches of patents will be filed progress will grind to a halt as no-one can afford everyone else's patent licensing fees on a unproven market until the next wave expires and better products can be built again repeat

Yes they eat/kill lots of wildlife but so did the Bobcat, Lynx Ocelot and Foxes that we drove out of much of their North American habitat.

The best on-line "courseware" I have had was one where the Proffessor posted the homework as .txt or .rtf files on his website. He gave the option of emailing the homework or FTP'ing it on to the folder he set up for every student. I would usually just SSH into this server and work on it remotely via nano or something. All of the other professors used Canvas or Blackboard depending on which year neither worked more than half of the time. This same professor tried to use as much free text as possible and made them available via .pdf and .html on his site. He also would pass along to trusted students .pdf copies of the more common text books for the other courses that he had ripped the DRM out of because he thought they were ripping the studnets off.

I build images locally in virtualbox/vmware player/kqemu/whatever and upload or copy the image over after they are configured minimally.