risk: I am only disagreeing on the misuse of your terms.
Yes, NeoMedia is not self-sufficient unless you do a Marriott stretch-of-the-imagination with asterisks everywhere. NeoMedia is simply trying to change the definition of the term which their auditors rejected.
No serious investor is buying the recent shareholder release.
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” Henry Wheeler Shaw