Sean H. Breheny wrote:

> [SNIP WAGNER'S EXCELLENT EXPLANATION]
> AMEN!

  Amen too!  *Including* comments regarding surgeons (and I should
know!  I preface though, I do not refer to any of my current mentors ;-)

  There's certainly a popular mythology that skills are limited to those
furiously earning money in a given enterprise.  Knowing what I do, I can
but smile (wince) when surgeons are so deified.

Andy Kunz wrote:

>>All the great inventions were not done because somebody was paying the
>>inventor to do that, but because the inventor's creativity, dedication
> The truly great companies do both - witness Bell Labs/Lucent.

  So do we all agree on where M$ fits?

> >4) you can feel pleasure to do it, so you will do it better.
> That's my other hobby, right Tjaart? ;-{)

  Wow!  Well, you said it, not us ;-) (Is there an emoticon for this?)
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.