>>I was just pointing out that someone who had some experience indicated that they pad R&D considerably.
Unlike other business- for example, I'm sure that none of the contractors here ever has gone to lunch with friends/family/colleagues and claimed the cost as a business expense. ;-)
"... 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
