1.

I have a very small company, so small that in contrast to the BigCo's I'm basically a Lone Geek. I have tried the best I can to get them to work with us, but it's entirely been a one-way street -- they leak to us the things we're supposed to do, long after they've started doing them. And when we propose things we should do together, there's not been a response since the first query in early 1998. There's a remarkable imbalance, and of course since I'm not a BigCo, and don't work for one, what I want to do matters not one bit, net-net.

2.

Sometimes I think this is the Internet saying to me "Your work is done here."