My understanding is that they retained part of the customized code? also not nice that jcase had to blackmail them, however those are good news, Edge seems to go mainstream now. I am very curious which one will be first and better, community driven firmware or official one? I bet on the first one. Also their ecosystem is not a robust one now we can run B and N software on it. Once we can port anything to e-ink, their business model will suffer. I have a lot of books purchased from B and N and I like sharing between nook and edge. Market access is really a must.