YetiLIVES: Investors want results. They don't want to hold for years with delays and promises. POET mgmt needs to get it done and move their arses.
While I understand your frustration – and I am a long-term shareholder, too –, you should recognize that this company has several times changed its direction and always for the better. Or at least these changes went to directions I liked and like, including the most recent one targeting integrated photonics.
Management's job is to care for well-being and growth of the company, not the share price. Period. If the share price doesn't appreciate these efforts for well-being and growth even for longer periods of time, so what! You don't suggest management should stop "getting it done" and start pumping the stock instead, do you? They are already moving whatever has to be moved to get their job done.
It's about Patience™, as always. Next stop: October.