You make an excellent point and something I believe we knew, but it's easy to lose sight of this with too much focusing on the past at times IMO.

Last night on the history channel, Modern Marvels, was a re-run of the inventor TESLA. He was so far ahead of his time with electricity and communications to name a few, he was thought to be a mad Man...even insane.

EDISON and his role in using TESLA's ideas was documented in this series.

Woddy Norris was EDIG's TESLA.

Now, we wee 174+ outfits claimed to have stolen the IP....and there ya have it as you put it so well Ted.