Who's going to buy a monitor with outdated technology at 10x the price of competitors? Just look what happened with Openmoko.
Why would it have outdated technology, I'm suggesting a major display company open sources their firmware, saves money on debugging, adding new features, etc
The same people that will make a “dumb” TV that people will actually want to buy because it has table stakes display features: no one.
Never worked out why people who hate Smart TVs don't just not connect them to the LAN