Kevin, I remember the "technical" role very well- especially its diminishing proportion of the total "contribution." I have no intention of bagging the man when he's not here to defend himself openly, but lets not believe that any poster was a selfless pioneer distributing excellence to ignorant jealous plebs who contrived to silence him.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
