“It’s cynicism when young, experience when old.“
I don’t deny the truth of this – Hewlett and Packard; Wozniak and Jobs (and Wayne) not withstanding.
Regarding Edwin Armstrong (1890-1954):
“The moral of this sad story is that a single solitary individual no matter how meritorious, no matter how ingenious, no matter how deserving of recognition and reward is no match for a corporation with large capital assets and a team of well-paid corporate lawyers. This poor man, Edwin Armstrong, having contributed so much to society was driven to despair simply because Sarnoff and RCA had the power to do it.
They squashed him like a bug, and they didn’t care.”