Ann: AnteoTech signs Non-Binding MOU with Wyon, page-126

I couldn’t agree more with your first paragraph Goody. I’ve been banging on about it for years now.
When I have pointed out the abject weakness of the position of the previous management in relation to “collaborators” I was told: “ it’s not in their interest to be slow when making decisions.”

WRONG! Badly, egregiously wrong!

It is completely in their interests to “hedge their bets, take their time, play one technology off against another”. Why? Because it buys them time to squeeze revenue out of existing technology before capex for new. It buys them time to try to reverse engineer or find a substitute way. It also shaves time off patent protection as the clock runs down. Less royalties or license fees to pay before patent expiry.

I could never get the message through. (Messages have a hard time getting through bone!)

It seems like the new guys have realised the utter futility of the old ways and are changing things for the better.