Thank you for this post, Artguy. I could not have said it better.
I am still confused as to what the negativity and insulting is all about. I had lurked and then posted here and there (another board) for quite some time, and it still seems odd that anyone would want to play these games in such a company. Here we have a very high end engineering company with a pretty intense history and IP portfolio and some just want to go back to their days of being rejected on the playground. It is just odd to me.
If there are issues with the way the company is run, be a part of the solution and don't stand on the sidelines and point and laugh. Find a way to help and solve the problem, if it is a problem. And if you can't do that, then simply walk away. It is your money at stake...or, um, is it...?
I look forward to the shareholders meeting and I sure do hope everyone there has the class to reveal their "behind the windshield names" and debate like humans with fact and emotion properly balanced in the vein of those who view their OWN brains as IP!
(And just so there are no acronym confusions, that's Intellectual Property - not Internet Protocol or the Iberian Peninsula...)
-Neb
