Hi bob3160,
Not going on about big corps for ye here, but there are some that buy up or out (whatever you like to call it) firms with innovative software and then find a sure way to ruin it down the line. Why they always find a way to drive it downhill from the original workings is hard to say, but that is what it is. Just an example -remember what McAfee did to the SiteAdvisor tool, and some forum members here can come up with another dozen examples of good software that the Molochs mangled after they took it aboard. Money talks over brains apparently, well it is a way to get a brain park and loads of money & give some users a head-ache,
polonus