[DawnFalcon]

Ahh, revisionist history.

The format wasn't new. There were a few devices around, but they were inevitably overpriced and underspecced - "subnotebooks", such as the Toshiba Libretto. It was ASUS who brought the netbook as a hardware format to general usage, because of the OLPC policy of not offering itself on the open market, leaving it little general interest in hardware terms, meant that most of the focus was on it's (now-abandoned) educational goals instead.

And the Sugar Project, which runs on standard netbooks, is the project carrying on the educational work. Not OLPC.

You haven't debunked anything. Your corporate affiliation is clear, and your posts are no more than a reflection of how badly their marketing strategy is working. Moreover, Engadget and Gizmodo have never ever liked epaper, and they've been consistently wrong on it's popularity and future. Their "ooh shiny" viewpoint is simply not the one held by many people who want an epaper reader.