For example, if we look at cellular technology from let's say 1996 with those flip-up phones to the year 2004, when the iPhone was introduced, why can't I just say: "Gee, the whole industry should have come up with the iPhone concept a lot earlier..." But it didn't. We all know that ideas run the world but some ideas, like the iPhone and IPQA, are vector changers. It just takes time.
Note it was the big company with the resources, staff, capital, management, purchasing, marketing, legal department, even lobbyists, etc that put it out, not the Mom and Pop.
Second point, just because he may be a hard working guy with a tough job and a lot on his plate, and maybe even a really nice guy, does not equal that shareholders will make money here or that Sigma will become the universal world standard of this emerging industry.
Look at HUGE computer companies now gone, Digital, Data General, etc, think how many small ones, many thousands now gone.
You guys should be hoping for some kind of buyout at best here IMO