> I did not write that paragraph, my friend.
My bad.
But that paragraph is what my original question is about.
My bad.
But that paragraph is what my original question is about.
This isn't an unsolvable problem. It takes probably less than $100K (and probably less than $50K) in NRE to make a truly open-source monochrome LCD and driver chip. This is on the order of a plastic injection mold.
But everybody simply whines rather than banding together, coughing up the CASH, and actually FIXING the problem once and for all.
Sadly, this seems to be standard operating procedure in the world of open source.
Even now, there is nothing stopping you from going to the upstream LCD manufacturer and saying "Hi, Mr. LCD manufacturer. Here is a different driver chip, could you please take that nice LCD and use it with it?"
It all just takes cash. And not even a lot by manufacturing standards.